Micah 7:6 - Exposition

For the son dishonoureth; Septuagint, ἀτιμάζει : Vulgate, contumeliam facit; literally, treats as a fool, despises ( Deuteronomy 32:6 , Deuteronomy 32:15 ). (For the rest of the verse, see Matthew 10:21 , Matthew 10:35 , etc.) Men of his own house. His domestic servants ( Genesis 17:27 ). Henderson, referring to this dissolution of every natural tie, compares Ovid, 'Metamorph.,' 1:144, etc.—

" Vivitur ex rapto; non hospes ab hespite tutus,

Non socer a genero; fratrum quoque gratia rara est;

Imminet exitio vir conjugis, illa mariti;

Lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae;

Filius ante diem patrios iuquirit in annos;

Victa jacet pietas ."