Proverbs 7:4
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
World English Bible British
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.
5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Cross References
Job 17:14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Proverbs 4:6Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Matthew 12:49He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and 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 →