John Trapp on Obadiah 1:7

Verſe 7. All the men of thy confederacy] which therefore ſhould be true to thee, but prove trecherous: ſo vaine it is to truſt to that broken reed of carnall combinations, Many friends are like deep ponds, cleare at the top, and all muddy at the bottom: the cauſes they will be, but not the companions of calamity. Like they are ſaith One, to crowes which flock to a dead carcaſſe, not to defend it but to devour it: and no ſooner have they bared the bones, but they are gone. David complaineth of ſuch Pſal. 55.13, 14, 15. and Jeremy of his unkind countreymen of Anathoth chap. 11. But for Edom, it was no great pitty, conſidering their perfidy both to God (becauſe they had tranſgreſſed the lawes morall and municipall, changed the ordinances, that is, the law, of nations and broken the everlaſting covenant, that is, the law of Nature, which is that light that lighteneth every man that commeth into the world Ioh. 1.9.) and alſo to their brethren the Iſraelites their extreame inhumanity, as it followeth ver. 10.11. They had therefore but their own meaſure meted againe to them: as they had forgotten the brotherly covenant, Am. 1.9, 11. ſo they met with thoſe that paid them home in their own coyne: neither were they any more pittyed, then Haman when the king frowned upon him, or Sejanus when he fell into the diſpleaſure of Tiberius; his friends ſhewing themſelves moſt paſſionate againſt him, ſaying that if Caeſar had clemency, he ought to reſerve it for men, and not caſt it away upon monſters.

al brought thee even to the border] And there left thee at the worſt: pretending to help thee, but betraying thee indeed to the enemy: and helping to caſt thee out of thy countrey, under a ſhew of courteſy.

the men that were at peace with thee] Heb: the men of thy peace, the Ammonites, Moabites and other neighbour-nations from whom thou fearedſt no hurt: theſe, to ingratiate with the king of the Chaldeans.

have deceived thee] Tuta frequenſque via eſt per amici fallere nomen. Ovid. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Socr. This made a certaine Heathen cry out, Friends, there is no friend to be found: and Another, to pray God to deliver him from his friends; for, as for his enemies he could better beware of them.

they that eat thy bread] Heb. thy bread-men, thy fellow-commoners, convictores & conſalanei, others amici, that are ſeldome either ſatisfied, or ſure.

have laid a wound under thee] The Hebrew word ſignifieth both a wound and a plaiſter: they would ſecretly wound them, lay a wound under them; and yet ſeeme willing to bind up their wounds, and heale them, by applying a plaſter: ſuch dawbing there is in the world, Fide, deffide. Cavebis autem ſi pavebis.

there is none underſtanding in him] that is, in Edom. and this ſeemeth ſpoken by way of Apoſtrophe to the Iſraelites, whoſe comfort is intended in this whole Propheſie. It is as if it had been ſaid, Edom holds himſelf wiſe, but will ſhew himſelf a very ſot, deſtitute of common ſenſe: ſuch as taketh not notice that theſe are the wounds with which he was wounded in the houſe of his friends: the wit[illegible: 1 letter]al is either inſenſible of it: or elſe well content with it, till he hath bought his wit, and begins to open his eyes; but not till the paines of death are upon him, as it is ſaid of the Mole.