Micah 7:5
Good News Translation
Don't believe your neighbor or trust your friend. Be careful what you say even to your husband or wife.

New Revised Standard Version
Put no trust in a friend, have no confidence in a loved one; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your embrace;

Contemporary English Version
Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love.

New American Bible
Put no faith in a friend, do not trust a companion; With her who lies in your embrace watch what you say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.

ye not in.

Job 6:14,15 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 118:8,9 It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. . . .

Jeremiah 9:4 Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

keep.

Judges 16:5-20 And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. . . .

Context
Israel's Great Misery
4He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction. 5Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.6For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his own household.…
Cross References
Psalm 41:9
For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

Psalm 141:3
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Lamentations 1:2
Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.

Micah 7:4
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