Micah 7:6
4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
- KJV
- For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
- WEB
- For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
- ASV
- For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man`s enemies are the men of his own house.
- DARBY
- For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: a man's enemies are the men of his own household.
- BLB
- For a son dishonors a father, a daughter rises against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—the enemies of a man [are] the men of his own house!
- ÅB
- For en sønn forakter faren sin,
en datter setter seg opp mot moren sin,
en svigerdatter mot svigermoren sin.
En manns husfolk er fiendene hans. - OTB
- Å sette en sønn mot sin far,
en datter mot sin mor,
og svigerdatter mot sin svigermor;
En persons fiender er hans egne husfolk. - B1930
- For en sønn forakter sin far, en datter setter sig op imot sin mor, en svigerdatter mot sin svigermor; en manns husfolk er hans fiender.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 10:35–36
For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Read in contextLuke 12:53
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Read in contextMatthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Read in contextPsalms 41:9
Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Read in contextPsalms 55:12–14
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:2–3
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Read in contextLuke 21:16
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
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