Proverbs 11:22
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
BSB
ASV
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.
KJV
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Reason also forbids us to do violence to nature by piercing the lobes of the ear. Why not pierce the nostrils also? The Scriptures would then be accomplished indeed: "As a ring in the nose of the swine, so is beauty in a foolish woman." To conclude, if anyone thinks he is decorated when he wears gold, then he is less than his gold, and he who is less than gold is not its master.
A jewel of gold in a swine’s snout - That is, beauty in a woman destitute of good breeding and modest carriage, is as becoming as a gold ring on the snout of a swine. Coverdale translates thus: “A fayre woman without discrete maners, is like a ringe of golde in a swyne’s snoute.” In Asiatic countries the nose jewel is very common: to this the text alludes.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 31:30Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
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2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
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As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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Proverbs 9:13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
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She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.