Proverbs 7:4

4 Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

Proverbs 7:4 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:4

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" ^F1; 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" ^F2 by us, as the word used signifies, and dwell richly in us.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (edm) "cognatum", Piscator.
F2 "Notam", Montanus, Michaelis.

Proverbs 7:4 In-Context

2 keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and my words as the pupils of eyes.

3 And bind them on thy fingers, and write on the table of thine heart.

4 Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

5 that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

6 For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,