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Bible in Basic English
Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
New American Standard Bible
So is a beautiful woman who lacks
King James Version
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Holman Bible
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.
American Standard Version
As a ring of gold in a swine's snout,'so is a fair woman that 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].
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:22
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Proverbs Of Solomon
21 Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe. 22 Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense. 23 The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
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Genesis 24:47
And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.
Proverbs 7:10
And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
Proverbs 9:13
The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
Proverbs 31:30
Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.
Nahum 3:4-6
Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
1 Peter 3:3-4
Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;
2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.