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Those friends who ate with you have laid a trap for you; they say of you, 'Where is all that cleverness he had?' </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/obadiah/1-7.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/obadiah/1-7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/obadiah/1-7.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Obadiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../obadiah/1-6.htm" title="Obadiah 1:6">◄</a> Obadiah 1:7 {6} <a href="../obadiah/1-8.htm" title="Obadiah 1:8">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/obadiah/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/obadiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Your allies have deceived you; they have driven you from your country. People who were at peace with you have now conquered you. Those friends who ate with you have laid a trap for you; they say of you, 'Where is all that cleverness he had?' <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/obadiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; those who ate your bread have set a trap for you— there is no understanding of it.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/obadiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your allies can't be trusted. They will force you out of your own country. And your best friends will trick and trap you, even before you know it. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/obadiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />To the border they have driven you— all your allies; Your partners have deceived you, they have overpowered you; Those who eat your bread will replace you with foreigners, who have no understanding. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/obadiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?</p><p class="hdg">the men of.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/55-12.htm">Psalm 55:12,13</a> For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a> But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/30-14.htm">Jeremiah 30:14</a> All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../lamentations/1-19.htm">Lamentations 1:19</a> Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me: my priests and my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their food, to relieve their souls.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22-25</a> Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/17-12.htm">Revelation 17:12-17</a> And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast. . . . </p><p class="hdg">men that were at peace with thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/20-10.htm">Jeremiah 20:10</a> For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/38-22.htm">Jeremiah 38:22</a> Behold all the women that are left in the house of the king of Juda, shall be brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon: and they shall say: Thy men of peace have deceived thee, and have prevailed against thee, they have plunged thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery place and they have departed from thee.</p><p class="hdg">they that eat thy bread.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/41-9.htm">Psalm 41:9</a> For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/13-18.htm">John 13:18</a> I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up his heel against me,</p><p class="hdg">there is.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/19-11.htm">Isaiah 19:11-14</a> The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/27-11.htm">Isaiah 27:11</a> Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7</a> Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/13-13.htm">Hosea 13:13</a> The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.</p><p class="hdg">in him.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/obadiah/1.htm">The Destruction of Edom</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster? <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl">How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?</span><span class="reftext">8</span>They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/41-9.htm">Psalm 41:9</a></span><br />For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/19-11.htm">Isaiah 19:11</a></span><br />The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/30-14.htm">Jeremiah 30:14</a></span><br />All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7</a></span><br />Against Edom. 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