Micah 7:5

Micah 7:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
• New International Version (NIV)Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.

Context of Micah 7:5

3Their hands are skilled in doing evil. Officials ask for gifts. Judges accept bribes. Powerful people dictate what they want. So they scheme together. 4The best of them is like a briar. The most decent person is sharper than thornbushes. The day you thought you would be punished has come. Now is the time you will be confused. Don’t trust your neighbors. Don’t have confidence in ⌞your⌟ friends. Keep your mouth shut even when a woman is lying in your arms. 6A son treats his father with contempt. A daughter rebels against her mother. A daughter-in-law rebels against her mother-in-law. People’s enemies are the members of their own families. 7I will look to the Lord. I will wait for God to save me. I will wait for my God to listen to me.

Micah 7:5 word by word

אַל־תַּאֲמִ֣ינוּ בְרֵ֔עַ אַֽל־תִּבְטְח֖וּ בְּאַלּ֑וּף מִשֹּׁכֶ֣בֶת חֵיקֶ֔ךָ שְׁמֹ֖ר פִּתְחֵי־פִֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Trustאָמַן'âman · be faithfulH539
• ye not in a friendרֵעַrêa‛ rêya‛ · neighborH7453
• put ye not confidenceבָּטַחbâţach · to trustH982
• in a guideאַלּוּף'alûph 'allûph · tameH441
• keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: guardH8104
• the doorsפֶּ֫תַחpethach · entranceH6607
• of thy mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310
• from her that liethשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
• in thy bosomחֵיקchêyq chêq chôq · bosom: embraceH2436

Cross-references for Micah 7:5

• Job 6:14“A friend should treat a troubled person kindly, even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.
• Psalms 118:8It is better to depend on the Lord than to trust mortals.
• Jeremiah 9:4“Beware of your neighbors. Don’t trust your relatives. Every relative cheats. Every neighbor goes around slandering.
• Matthew 10:16“I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as snakes but as innocent as doves.
• Judges 16:5The Philistine rulers came to her and said, “Trick him, and find out what makes him so strong. Find out how we can overpower him. We want to tie him up in order to torture him. Each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

Commentaries on Micah 7:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Trust ye not in a friend - These times will be so evil, and the people so wicked, that all bonds will be dissolved; and even the most intimate will betray each other, when they can hope to serve themselves by it. On this passage, in the year 1798, I find I have written as follows: - "Trust ye not in a friend. - Several of those whom I have delighted to call by that name have deceived me. "Put ye not confidence in a guide. - Had I followed some of these I…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Trust ye not in a friend - It is part of the perplexity of crooked ways, that all relationships are put out of joint. Selfishness rends each from the other, and disjoints the whole frame of society. Passions and sin break every band of friendship, kindred, gratitude, nature. “Everyone seeketh his own‘.” Times of trial and of outward harass increase this; so that God‘s visitations are seasons of the most frightful recklessness as to everything but sell: So…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Do not rely on a friend: Bitterness, corruption, and betrayal had harmed the community of the Lord's people (compare Matthew 10:34–36; Luke 12:52–53).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Trust ye not in a friend--Faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are treacherous (Jr 9:2-6). When justice is perverted by the great, faith nowhere is safe. So, in gospel times of persecution, "a man's foes are they of his own household" (Mt 10:35, 36; Lu 12:53). guide--a counsellor [Calvin] able to help and advise (compare Psa 118:8, 9; 146:3). The head of your family, to whom all the members of the family would naturally repair in emergencies. Similarly…Read the comment

Topics related to Micah 7:5

• Despondency
• Hypocrisy
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Light
• Mouth
• Net
• Guide
• Micah (2)

Commentaries on Micah 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings