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Even the best of them is like a thornbush;
    the most honest of them is worse than a prickly plant.
The day that your watchmen[a] warned you about has come.
    Now they will be confused.
Don’t believe your neighbor
    or trust a friend.
Don’t say anything,
    even to your wife.
A son will not honor his father,
    a daughter will turn against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law will be against her mother-in-law;
    a person’s enemies will be members of his own family.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:4 watchmen Another name for prophets. The prophets were like guards who stood on a city’s wall and watched for trouble coming from far away.

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