Proverbs 11:22
A ring of gold in a swine's snout, [is] a fair woman who is without discretion.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
In Context
23The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Cross References
Genesis 24:47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Proverbs 9:13The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, [but] a woman who fears LORD, she shall be praised.
Nahum 3:4because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
2 Peter 2:22But that of the TRUE proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:22
21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. Observe, 1. That confederacies in sin shall certainly be broken, and shall not avail to protect the sinners: Though hand join in hand, though there are many that concur by their practice to keep wickedness in countenance, and engage to stand by one another in defending it against all the attacks of virtue and justice,—though they are in league for the support and propagation of it,—though wicked… Read the whole commentary →