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Micah 7:5

Trust ye not in a friend—Faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are treacherous (Jeremiah 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" (Matthew 10:35-36; Luke 12:53).

guide—a counsellor [CALVIN] able to help and advise (compare Psalms 118:8-9; Psalms 146:3). The head of your family, to whom all the members of the family would naturally repair in emergencies. Similarly the Hebrew is translated in Joshua 22:14 and "chief friends" in Proverbs 16:28 [GROTIUS].

her that lieth in thy bosom—thy wife (Deuteronomy 13:6).

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