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Don`t you trust in a neighbor; don`t you put confidence in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.
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A Diagnosis, Not a Command
Commentators like Calvin and Gill clarify that this verse is not a timeless command to distrust everyone. Rather, it's a heartbreaking description of a society so corrupted by sin that even the most sacred bonds of friendship and family have dissolved. It diagnoses a specific, degenerate age rather than prescribing universal cynicism for all time.
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Micah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Trust you not in a friend - It is part of the perplexity of crooked ways, that all relationships are put out of joint. Selfishness rends eac…
19th Century
Anglican
Trust you not...—All is now distrust and suspicion. The households are divided each against itself, and the relationships…
Baptist
So saturated with dishonesty had the nation become that the evil had penetrated even into domestic life, with the result that, where all should hav…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues with the subject we discussed yesterday—that license in iniquity had arrived at its highest point, for no faithfulness remain…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Trust you not in a friend This is not said to lessen the value of friendship; or to discourage the cultivation of it…
The prophet laments that he lived among a people swiftly ripening for ruin, a situation in which many good people would suffer. People found no com…
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