Proverbs 11:22
A beautiful woman who lacks good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
Free Bible 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
21You can be certain of this: the wicked won't go unpunished, but the good will be saved.
23Good people want what's best, but what the wicked hope for ends in death.
Cross References
Genesis 24:47I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘I'm the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah and Nahor.’ So I put the ring in her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
Proverbs 9:13Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant woman who doesn't know anything.
Proverbs 31:30Charm can deceive, and beauty fades, but a woman who honors the Lord should be praised.
Nahum 3:4All this happens because the repeated prostitution of Nineveh the prostitute, the beautiful mistress with her deadly charms who seduces nations into slavery by her prostitution and her witchcraft.
2 Peter 2:22This proverb has come true for them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the washed pig has gone back to rolling 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 →