God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 11:22
22⌞Like⌟ a gold ring in a pig’s snout, ⌞so⌟ is a beautiful woman who lacks good taste.
Proverbs 11:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
- New International Version (NIV)Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
- New King James Version (NKJV)As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.
Context of Proverbs 11:22
20Devious people are disgusting to the Lord, but he is delighted with those whose ways are innocent. 21Certainly, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the descendants of righteous people will escape. ⌞Like⌟ a gold ring in a pig’s snout, ⌞so⌟ is a beautiful woman who lacks good taste. 23The desire of righteous people ends only in good, but the hope of wicked people ends only in fury. 24One person spends freely and yet grows richer, while another holds back what he owes and yet grows poorer.
Read all of Proverbs 11Proverbs 11:22 word by word
נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 11:22
- Proverbs 31:30“Charm is deceptive, and beauty evaporates, ⌞but⌟ a woman who has the fear of the Lord should be praised.
- Ezekiel 16:15“ ‘But you trusted your beauty, and you used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.
- Nahum 3:4because of Nineveh’s constant prostitution, this very charming mistress of evil magic. She used to sell nations her prostitution and people her evil magic.
- 1 Peter 3:3Wives must not let their beauty be something external. Beauty doesn’t come from hairstyles, gold jewelry, or clothes.
- 2 Peter 2:22These proverbs have come true for them: “A dog goes back to its vomit,” and “A sow that has been washed goes back to roll around in the mud.”
- Proverbs 7:10A woman with an ulterior motive meets him. She is dressed as a prostitute.
- Proverbs 9:13The woman Stupidity is loud, gullible, and ignorant.
Commentaries on Proverbs 11:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22A jewel of gold in a swine's snout - That is, beauty in a woman destitute of good breeding and modest carriage, is as becoming as a gold ring on the snout of a swine. Coverdale translates thus: "A fayre woman without discrete maners, is like a ringe of golde in a swyne's snoute." In Asiatic countries the nose jewel is very common: to this the text alludes.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22The most direct proverb, in the sense of “similitude,” which has as yet met us. Jewel of gold - Better, ring; i. e., the nose-ring Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:47; Isaiah 3:21. Without discretion - literally, “without taste,” void of the subtle tact and grace, without which mere outward beauty is as ill-bestowed as the nose-ring in the snout of the unclean beast. If we may assume that in ancient Syria, as in modern Europe, swine commonly wore such a ring to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22Verse 22 Beauty is abused by those who have not discretion or modesty with it. This is true of all bodily endowments.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22Discretion is the skill to distinguish right from wrong, beauty from ugliness, and good taste from bad taste.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. Jewels were often suspended from the nose (Ge 24:47; Is 3:21). Thus adorned, a hog disgusts less than a fair and indiscreet woman.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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