Micah 7:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ 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,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Trust not in a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom. [Luke 12:51-53.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Common English Bible

⁵ Don’t rely on a friend; put no trust in a companion; guard the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your embrace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed.

Micah 7:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Psalm 41:9

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted the heel against me.

Psalm 141:3

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Psalm 38:14

Truly, I am like one who does not hear and in whose mouth is no retort.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.