Proverbs 11:22
Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
Bible in Basic English
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 upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
Cross References
Genesis 24:47And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.
Proverbs 9:13The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
Proverbs 31:30Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.
Nahum 3:4Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
2 Peter 2:22They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
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 →