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Jeremiah 9:4
New English Translation
Jeremiah 9:4
New English Translation
4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends.
He must not even trust any of his relatives.[a]
For every one of them will find some way to cheat him.[b]
And all his friends will tell lies about him.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:4 tn Heb “Be on your guard…Do not trust.” The verbs are second masculine plural of direct address and there seems no way to translate literally and not give the mistaken impression that Jeremiah is being addressed. This is another example of the tendency in Hebrew style to turn from description to direct address (a figure of speech called apostrophe).
- Jeremiah 9:4 tn Heb “cheating, each of them will cheat.”sn There is perhaps an intentional pun and allusion here to Gen 27:36 and the wordplay on the name Jacob there. The text here reads עָקוֹב יַעְקֹב (ʿaqob yaʿqob).
Jeremiah 9:4
New International Version
Jeremiah 9:4
New International Version
Jeremiah 9:4
King James Version
Jeremiah 9:4
King James Version
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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