Proverbs 11:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Proverbs 11:21

Though hand join in hand, the evil man 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

Favour 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 an harlot, and wily of heart.

Proverbs 9:13

The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.