Proverbs 7:4
2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
- KJV
- Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
- WEB
- Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
- ASV
- Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
- DARBY
- Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
- BLB
- Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister,” and call out to understanding, “Kinsman,”
- ÅB
- Si til visdommen: Du er min søster, og kall forstanden din kjenning,
- OTB
- Si til visdommen: «Du er min søster,» og kall innsikten din nære venn,
- B1930
- Si til visdommen: Du er min søster, og kall forstanden din kjenning,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 2:2–4
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
Read in contextProverbs 4:6–8
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
Read in contextJob 17:14
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:1
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
Read in contextMatthew 12:49–50
Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers.
Read in contextLuke 11:27–28
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
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