Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
In Context
3Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
Cross References
Job 17:14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Proverbs 4:6Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
Matthew 12:49And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren.
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 →