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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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Albert Barnes
On Micah 7:5–6
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Micah 7:5–6
19th Century
Bishop
Trust you not...—All is now distrust and suspicion. The households are divided each against itself, and the relationships…
Charles Spurgeon
On Micah 7:5
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Micah 7:5–6
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet continues with the subject we discussed yesterday—that license in iniquity had arrived at its highest point, for no faithfulness remain…
John Gill
On Micah 7:5
17th Century
Pastor
Trust you not in a friend
This is not said to lessen the value of friendship; or to discourage the cultivation of it…
Matthew Henry
On Micah 7:1–7
17th Century
Minister
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…