Proverbs 11:22
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Berean Standard Bible
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
21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
23The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
Cross References
Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Proverbs 9:13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Nahum 3:4because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back 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 →