Proverbs 11:22
A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.
Catholic Public Domain 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
21Hand in hand, the evil shall not be innocent. But the offspring of the just shall be saved.
23The desire of the just is entirely good. The anticipation of the impious is fury.
Cross References
Genesis 24:47And I questioned her, saying, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she responded, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ And so, I hung the earrings on her, to adorn her face, and I put the bracelets on her hands.
Proverbs 9:13A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,
Proverbs 31:30Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
Nahum 3:4Because of the multitude of fornications of the kept woman, beautiful and pleasing and practicing evil deeds, who sold nations by her fornications, and families by her evil doing:
2 Peter 2:22For the truth of the proverb has happened to them: The dog has returned to his own vomit, and the washed sow has returned to her wallowing in the mud.
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 →