Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

As a ring of gold in a swine's snout,'so is a fair woman that is without discretion.

New American Standard Bible

As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout
So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

King James Version

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Holman Bible

A beautiful woman who rejects good sense
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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As a jewel
נזם 
Nexem 
Usage: 17

of gold
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

in a swine's
חזיר 
Chaziyr 
Usage: 7

so is a fair
יפה 
Yapheh 
Usage: 41

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

21 Though hand join in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. 22 As a ring of gold in a swine's snout,'so is a fair woman that is without discretion. 23 The desire of the righteous is only good; But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Cross References

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 ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Proverbs 7:10

And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

Proverbs 9:13

The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.

Proverbs 31:30

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

Ezekiel 16:15-22

But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

Nahum 3:4-6

because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

1 Peter 3:3-4

Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

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