Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call prudence your friend.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
In Context
3Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
Cross References
Job 17:14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”
Proverbs 4:6Do not send her away, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will preserve you.
Matthew 12:49And extending his hand to his disciples, he said: “Behold: my mother and my brothers.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →