Proverbs 11:22

It is ◄ unsuitable/not proper/disgusting► for a beautiful woman not to know what is right to do, like [SIM] it is unsuitable/disgusting for a pig to have a gold ring in its snout/nose.

Translation for Translators

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

21It is certain that Yahweh will punish evil people and that righteous people will escape from being punished.

23When the things that righteous people want happen, it brings good to them and to others, but when the wicked get what they want, it causes everyone else to become angry.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:47Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor and his wife, Milcah.’ I had a ring and bracelets with me, and I put the ring in her nose and put the bracelets on her arms.

Proverbs 9:13Foolish women talk loudly; they are ignorant and are never ashamed of the wrong things that they do.

Proverbs 31:30Some women who are attractive are not really good women, but they can deceive us regarding what they are really like. Furthermore, women’s beauty does not last; but women who revere Yahweh should be honored.

Nahum 3:4All that will happen because Nineveh is like [MET] a beautiful prostitute who lures men to where they will be ruined; Nineveh is a beautiful city which has attracted/enticed people of other nations to come there. The people of Nineveh taught those people of other nations rituals of magic, and caused them to become their slaves.

2 Peter 2:22The way they are behaving again is just like ◄the proverbs/what people often say►: They are like dogs that return to eat their vomit, and they are like pigs that have been washed and then roll again 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 →

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