KJV King James Version
[As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
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Proverbs 11:22
[As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
WEB World English Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
ASV American Standard Version
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 11
19 As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
20 They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.
21 [Though] hand [join] in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
22 [As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
23 The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
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1 Peter 3:3-4Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;Proverbs 31:30Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.Nahum 3:4-6Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.2 Peter 2:22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.Proverbs 9:13A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.Proverbs 7:10And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter [art] thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.Ezekiel 16:15-22But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
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