Proverbs 11:22 {23}
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The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.

a jewel

Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Ezekiel 16:15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.

Nahum 3:4-6 Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts. . . .

1 Peter 3:3,4 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .

2 Peter 2:22 For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

is without

Proverbs 7:10 Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,

Proverbs 9:13 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Context
Dishonest Scales
21A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish. 22The desire of the just is all good, the expectation of the wicked is indignation.23Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:47
And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.

Proverbs 11:21
A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Lexicon
Like a gold
זָ֭הָב (zā·hāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

ring
נֶ֣זֶם (ne·zem)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5141: A ring (worn as an ornament)

in a pig’s
חֲזִ֑יר (ḥă·zîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2386: Swine, boar

snout
בְּאַ֣ף (bə·’ap̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

[is] a beautiful
יָ֝פָ֗ה (yā·p̄āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3303: Fair, beautiful

woman
אִשָּׁ֥ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

who lacks
וְסָ֣רַת (wə·sā·raṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5493: To turn aside

discretion.
טָֽעַם׃ (ṭā·‘am)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2940: A taste, perception, intelligence, a mandate


Additional Translations
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

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

As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded women.

A fair woman who is without discretion, is [as] a gold ring in a swine's snout.

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

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

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

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