Proverbs 7:4
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New International Version (©2011)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and to insight, "You are my relative."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your relative.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Say to wisdom, "You're my sister!" and call understanding your close relative,

NET Bible (©2006)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding a close relative,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Say to wisdom, “ You are my sister”, and to understanding, “My expounder of knowledge.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister." Give the name "my relative" to understanding

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Say unto wisdom, you are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:

American King James Version
Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:

American Standard Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

Darby Bible Translation
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman:

English Revised Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Webster's Bible Translation
Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

World English Bible
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

Young's Literal Translation
Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou art.' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be read. Thus we shall be kept from the fatal effects of our own passions, and the snares of Satan. Let God's word confirm our dread of sin, and resolutions against it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - Say unto Wisdom, Thou art my sister. Wisdom is personified, and the connection with her indicated by the relationship which best expresses love, purity, confidence. In the Book of Wisdom 8. she is represented as wife. Christ calls those who do God's will his brother, and sister, and mother (Matthew 12:50). Call Understanding thy kinswoman; moda, "familiar friend." Let prudence and sound sense be as dear to thee as a close friend.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister,.... Intimately acquainted, greatly beloved, and highly delighted in: this may be understood both of the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, which men should be conversant with, be strongly affected to, and take delight and pleasure in; and of Christ, the essential Wisdom of God, and who stands in the relation of a brother to his people, and should be respected as such;

and call understanding thy kinswoman; or "kinsman" (a); such Christ is in our nature, our "goel", our near kinsman, partaker of the same flesh and blood, and therefore is not ashamed to call us brethren, nor should we be ashamed to call him kinsman: moreover, his Word and Gospel, and the understanding of it, should be familiar to us; it should be well "known" (b) by us, as the word used signifies, and dwell richly in us.

(a) "cognatum", Piscator. (b) "Notam", Montanus, Michaelis.

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Warnings about the Adulteress
…3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman: 5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words. …

Proverbs 7:3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.