New English Translation
Proverbs 11:22
22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.
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
20The Lord abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight. 21Be assured that the evil person will certainly be punished, but the descendants of the righteous will not suffer unjust judgment. Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion. 23What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath. 24One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.
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נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 11:22
- Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised.
- Ezekiel 16:15“‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.
- Nahum 3:4“Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery –
- 1 Peter 3:3Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –
- 2 Peter 2:22They are illustrations of this true proverb: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
- Proverbs 7:10Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
- Proverbs 9:13The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
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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