Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
In Context
3Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.
5To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
Cross References
Job 17:14To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.
Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake her, and she preserves you, || Love her, and she keeps you.
Matthew 12:49And having stretched forth His hand toward 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 →