Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
So is a beautiful woman who lacks
King James Version
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Holman Bible
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.
A Conservative Version
A ring of gold in a swine's snout, [is] a fair woman who is without discretion.
American Standard Version
As a ring of gold in a swine's snout,'so is a fair woman that is without discretion.
Amplified
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].
Bible in Basic English
Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
Darby Translation
A fair woman who is without discretion, is as a gold ring in a swine's snout.
Julia Smith Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a swine, a fair woman and she departed from discernment
King James 2000
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A ring of gold in [the] snout of a pig [is] a woman [who is] beautiful but without discretion.
Modern King James verseion
Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A fair woman without discreet manners, is like a ring of gold in a swine's snout.
NET Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.
New Heart English Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
The Emphasized Bible
As a ring of gold in the snout of a swine, is a woman of beauty who hath abandoned discretion.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:22
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Proverbs Of Solomon
21
Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
22
So is a beautiful woman who lacks
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Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.'So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
Proverbs 7:10
And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
Proverbs 9:13
The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.
Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
"But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
Nahum 3:4-6
And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
1 Peter 3:3-4
Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear--
2 Peter 2:22
What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire."