Mic 7:5 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.
2006-10-30 13:22:16 · 17 answers · asked by SmartPerson 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
GOD’S prophet Micah knew that promises can often prove unreliable. In his day, even the closest of companions could not always be trusted to keep their word. So Micah warned: “Do not put your faith in a companion. Do not put your trust in a confidential friend. From her who is lying in your bosom guard the openings of your mouth.”—Micah 7:5.
Did Micah allow this sad situation to make him skeptical about all promises? No! He expressed complete confidence in the promises made by his God, Jehovah. “As for me,” wrote Micah, “it is for Jehovah that I shall keep on the lookout. I will show a waiting attitude for the God of my salvation.”—Micah 7:7.
Why did Micah have such confidence? Because he knew that Jehovah always keeps his word. Everything God had sworn to Micah’s forefathers unfailingly came true. (Micah 7:20) Jehovah’s faithfulness in the past gave Micah every reason to believe that He would keep His word in the future.
2006-10-30 13:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by Lz 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1st I would read the rest of the passage. Then I would say that the whole chapter is about a world getting very evil and you shouldn't trust anyone. Not even your wife.
Why is it every time some see the word "woman in your arms" mean that woman isn't his wife.
Mic 7:5 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.
KJV
MIc 7:5 Don't trust anyone-not your best friend or even your wife! NLT (new living translation)
2006-10-30 13:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by suthrndaysi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to understand its context. It was given to Judah in the 8th century BC when the Assyrians were about to conqueor Judah. It was a time of great apostasy, when religion was mere form, and you could not trust anyone. Idolatry was rife and the nation was falling apart. Most of the cities of Judah were destroyed and Jerusalem almost fell. It that context, with the famine, pestilence, war and destruction, people were turning on each other simply to get the advantage of survival.
It is not to be understood as a rule for normative life.
2006-10-30 13:34:41 · answer #3 · answered by mediocritis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Question~~~~
Has a friend ever let you down?
Has a neighbor ever lied to you or done something to hurt you?
Most of us have, and if you haven't had that happen you will in the course of a life time. God is the only one you can trust. That is what that verse is trying to say.
Also, the last quote says~~~
Guard the doors of your mouth. This means don't say foolish things just to hear yourself talk.
From her who lies in your bosom. This means the woman who is in your heart. Do not blurt out mean or evil words to her.
2006-10-30 13:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the whole book, it is only 7 chapters long. It is prophesy of a terrible time yet to come in this world. You can't take text like that and apply everything in God's prophetic timetable to this day and age.
2006-10-30 13:37:40 · answer #5 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not trust a neighbor;
put no confidence in a friend.
Even with her who lies in your embrace
be careful of your words.
I think it means to be careful and don't give in to everything because this world is sinful.
2006-10-30 13:25:27 · answer #6 · answered by hi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be nice if you put the verse in its context so people could give you a good answer to your question.
Bottom line, read the chapter and understand, the world turning against God is a miserable place to live!
2006-10-30 13:38:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 Peter 3:16
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
I hope you are asking your question sincerely, otherwise I find this scripture applies to you.
ken
2006-10-30 13:36:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is not a universal principle, but is counsel strictly for that time of apostasy in which no one is assumed to be trustworthy." Be care ful of liers,and guard your own mouth from lies as well. Put your trust in God and keep your confidence in him.
2006-10-30 13:36:28 · answer #9 · answered by Mickey M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a page out of Samson's life.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10
2006-10-30 13:27:38 · answer #10 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋