Proverbs 11:22 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²² As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, So is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.

Common English Bible

²² Like a gold ring in a pig’s nose is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Proverbs 11:22 Cross References

Genesis 24:47

And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethu´el, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Proverbs 11:21

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 31:30

Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Proverbs 7:10

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtile of heart.

Proverbs 9:13

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

2 Peter 2:22

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.