Proverbs 11:22 {23}
Good News Translation
Beauty in a woman without good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without good sense.

Contemporary English Version
A beautiful woman who acts foolishly is like a gold ring on the snout of a pig.

New American Bible
Like a golden ring in a swine’s snout is a beautiful woman without judgment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.

a jewel

Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Ezekiel 16:15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.

Nahum 3:4-6 Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts. . . .

1 Peter 3:3,4 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .

2 Peter 2:22 For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

is without

Proverbs 7:10 Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,

Proverbs 9:13 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Context
Dishonest Scales
21A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish. 22The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.23Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:47
And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.

Proverbs 11:21
A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Proverbs 11:21
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