Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:22
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Proverbs Of Solomon
21 Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped. 22 A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour. 23 The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.
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Genesis 24:47
And I ask her, and say, Whose daughter art thou? and she saith, Daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah hath borne to him, and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands,
Proverbs 7:10
And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,
Proverbs 9:13
A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.
Proverbs 31:30
The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by -- to him it is.
Nahum 3:4-6
Because of the abundance of the fornications of an harlot, The goodness of the grace of the lady of witchcrafts, Who is selling nations by her fornications, And families by her witchcrafts.
1 Peter 3:3-4
whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,
2 Peter 2:22
and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; 'A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, 'A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'