Proverbs 11:22 · KJV
“{As} a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, {so is} a fair woman which is without discretion. {is without: Heb. departeth from}”
— Proverbs 11:22
{Though} hand {join} in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
The desire of the righteous {is} only good: {but} the expectation of the wicked {is} wrath.
Proverbs 11 — Context
They that are of a froward heart {are} abomination to the LORD: but {such as are} upright in {their} way {are} his delight.
21{Though} hand {join} in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
22{As} a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, {so is} a fair woman which is without discretion. {is without: Heb. departeth from}
23The desire of the righteous {is} only good: {but} the expectation of the wicked {is} wrath.
24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and {there is} that withholdeth more than is meet, but {it tendeth} to poverty.
Cross References
1 Peter 3:3-4
Whose adorning let it not be that outward {adorning} of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Proverbs 31:30
Favour {is} deceitful, and beauty {is} vain: {but} a woman {that} feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Nahum 3:4-6
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Proverbs 9:13
A foolish woman {is} clamorous: {she is} simple, and knoweth nothing.
Proverbs 7:10
And, behold, there met him a woman {with} the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
2 Peter 2:22
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog {is} turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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 earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.