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The best of them is like a brier bush,
    the most upright like a hedge of thorns.
    The day for your watchman,
    the day for your punishment has come.
    Now confusion[a] has come for them.

Do not trust a neighbor.
    Do not put confidence in a close friend.
    Watch what comes out of your mouth,
        even when you lie down with the wife you embrace.
For a son will declare that his father is a fool.
    A daughter will rise up against her mother,
    and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
    A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

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  1. Micah 7:4 Or panic