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The best of them is like a thorn,
    and their most upright like a hedge of thorns.
The day announced by[a] your watchmen—
    and by your own calculations—approaches.
        Now it’s your time to be[b] confused!

Don’t trust your friends,
    don’t confide in a companion,
        watch what you say to your wife.[c]
The son disrespects his father,
    the daughter rebels against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
    and a man’s enemies are the people of his own house.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:4 Lit. day of
  2. Micah 7:4 The Heb. lacks time to be
  3. Micah 7:5 Lit. her who lies near your bosom
  4. Micah 7:6 Cf. Matt 10:34-36