Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion.
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 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 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be innocent; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. 22 Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who turns aside discretion. 23 The desire of the righteous is only good; the hope of the wicked is wrath.
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Genesis 24:47
And I asked her and said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the earring upon her nose and the bracelets upon her hands.
Proverbs 7:10
And, behold, there a woman met him, with the dress of a harlot and a guarded heart.
Proverbs 9:13
A foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and knows nothing.
Proverbs 31:30
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she shall be praised.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.
Nahum 3:4-6
because of the many harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.
1 Peter 3:3-4
Of whom let not be the adorning of garments, or outward braiding of hair and wearing of gold, or of putting on clothing,
2 Peter 2:22
But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.