Proverbs 7:4–5
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7:4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”9
and call understanding a close relative,
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- 9 The metaphor is meant to signify that the disciple will be closely related to and familiar with wisdom and understanding, as close as to a sibling. Wisdom will be personified in the next two chapters, and so referring to it as a sister in this chapter certainly prepares for that personification.
- 10 The infinitive construct with the preposition shows the purpose of associating closely with wisdom: Wisdom will obviate temptations, the greatest being the sexual urge.
- 11 Heb “strange” (so , ).
- 12 Heb “strange woman.” This can be interpreted as a “wayward wife” (so ) or an “unfaithful wife” (so ). As discussed earlier, the designations “strange woman” and “foreign woman” could refer to Israelites who stood outside the community in their lawlessness and loose morals—an adulteress or wayward woman. H. Ringgren and W. Zimmerli, however, suggest that she is also a promoter of a pagan cult, but that is not entirely convincing (Spruche/Prediger [], 19).
- 13 The term “you” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness.
- 14 Heb “she makes smooth her words.” This expression means “she flatters with her words.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and to insight, “You are my relative.”
They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding your relative.
She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a wayward woman with her flattering talk.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Love wisdom like a sister;
make insight a beloved member of your family.
Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,
from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Say to wisdom, “you are my sister,”
and you shall call insight, “intimate friend.”
In order to guard yourself from an adulteress,
from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;
And call understanding thy kinswoman:
That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
From the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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