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Proverbs 11:22 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 11 · verse 22
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.Proverbs 11:22 · King James Version
Proverbs 11:22 in context
20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- swine'schăzîyra hogH2386 →
- withoutçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- jewelnezema nose-ringH5141 →
- snoutʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
- womanʼishshâha womanH802 →
- goldzâhâbgold, figuratively, something gold-colored , as oil, a clear skyH2091 →
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By discretion here we must understand religion and grace, a true taste and relish (so the word signifies) of the honours and pleasures that attend an unspotted virtue; so that a woman without discretion is a woman of a loose and dissolute conversation; and then observe, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary