Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion. New Living Translation A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout. English Standard Version Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. Berean Standard Bible Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. King James Bible As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. New King James Version As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion. New American Standard Bible As a ring of gold in a pig’s snout So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. NASB 1995 As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. NASB 1977 As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Legacy Standard Bible As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout So is a beautiful woman who turns away from discretion. Amplified Bible As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a beautiful woman who is without discretion [her lack of character mocks her beauty]. Christian Standard Bible A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout. Holman Christian Standard Bible A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout. American Standard Version As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Like a nose ring of gold in the snout of the pig, so is a beautiful woman who has turned from discretion. Brenton Septuagint Translation As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded women. Contemporary English Version A beautiful woman who acts foolishly is like a gold ring on the snout of a pig. Douay-Rheims Bible A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish. English Revised Version As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. GOD'S WORD® Translation [Like] a gold ring in a pig's snout, [so] is a beautiful woman who lacks good taste. Good News Translation Beauty in a woman without good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout. International Standard Version Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. JPS Tanakh 1917 As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion. Literal Standard Version A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A beautiful woman and stubborn of behavior. Majority Standard Bible Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. New American Bible Like a golden ring in a swine’s snout is a beautiful woman without judgment. NET Bible Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion. New Revised Standard Version Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without good sense. New Heart English Bible Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Webster's Bible Translation As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion. World English Bible Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Young's Literal Translation A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Dishonest Scales…21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape. 22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. 23The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.… Cross References Genesis 24:47 Then 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 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape. Treasury of Scripture As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. a jewel Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. Nahum 3:4-6 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts… is without Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. Proverbs 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. Jump to Previous Beautiful Behaviour Discretion Fair Gold Jewel Lacks Nose Pig Pig's Ring Sense Shows Sow Stubborn Swine's TurnethJump to Next Beautiful Behaviour Discretion Fair Gold Jewel Lacks Nose Pig Pig's Ring Sense Shows Sow Stubborn Swine's TurnethProverbs 11 1. On Deception(22) As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout.--Rather, a nose-ring run through the right nostril and hanging down over the mouth; a female ornament used from the earliest times (Genesis 24:47; Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16:12), and still worn in the East.Verse 22. - This is the first instance of direct "similitude" in the book. As a jewel [a ring] of gold in a swine's snout. The greatest incongruity is thus expressed. Women in the East wore, and still sometimes wear, a ring run through the nostril, and hanging over the mouth, so that it is necessary to hold it up when taking food. Such a nezem Abraham's servant gave to Rebekah (Genesis 24:22; comp. Isaiah 3:21; Ezekiel 16:12). The Septuagint has ἐνώτιον, "an earring." So is a fair woman which is without discretion; without taste, deprived of the faculty of saying and doing what is seemly and fitting. The external beauty of such a woman is as incongruous as a precious ring in the snout of a pig. Lesetre quotes an Arab proverb: "A woman without modesty is food without salt." Whether swine in Eastern countries were "ringed," as they are with us nowadays, is unknown; if they were thus treated, the proverb is still more vivid. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Like a goldזָ֭הָב (zā·hāḇ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky ring נֶ֣זֶם (ne·zem) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 5141: A ring (worn as an ornament) in a pig’s חֲזִ֑יר (ḥă·zîr) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2386: Swine, boar snout בְּאַ֣ף (bə·’ap̄) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire [is] a beautiful יָ֝פָ֗ה (yā·p̄āh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 3303: Fair, beautiful woman אִשָּׁ֥ה (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female who lacks וְסָ֣רַת (wə·sā·raṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct Strong's 5493: To turn aside discretion. טָֽעַם׃ (ṭā·‘am) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2940: A taste, perception, intelligence, a mandate Links Proverbs 11:22 NIVProverbs 11:22 NLT Proverbs 11:22 ESV Proverbs 11:22 NASB Proverbs 11:22 KJV Proverbs 11:22 BibleApps.com Proverbs 11:22 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 11:22 Chinese Bible Proverbs 11:22 French Bible Proverbs 11:22 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 11:22 Like a gold ring in a pig's (Prov. 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