Proverbs 11:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
  • Ezek 16:15-22 : 15 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was. 16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. 17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them; 18 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them. 19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter, 21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them? 22 In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.
  • Nah 3:4-6 : 4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. 5 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
  • 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
  • Gen 24:47 : 47 I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
  • Prov 7:10 : 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.
  • Prov 9:13 : 13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

    22He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Prov 3:14-16
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    14For her good profit is better than getting silver, And her return is better than fine gold.

    15She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

    16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Prov 9:13-14
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    13The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

    14She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.

  • Prov 20:15
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    15There is gold and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 21:19-20
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    19It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

    20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swallows it up.

  • Prov 31:10
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    10Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

  • Prov 8:11
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    11For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:

    16Restraining her is like restraining the wind, Or like grasping oil in his right hand.

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.

    11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

    12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

  • Prov 11:16
    71%

    16A gracious woman obtains honor, But violent men obtain riches.

  • Prov 5:3-4
    2 verses
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    3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

    4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 25:11-12
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    11A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

    12As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

  • Prov 22:1
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    1A good name is more desirable than great riches, And loving favor is better than silver and gold.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • Prov 19:1
    69%

    1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

  • Prov 2:4
    69%

    4If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:

  • Prov 4:9
    69%

    9She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."

  • Ezek 16:32
    69%

    32A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Job 28:17
    69%

    17Gold and glass can't equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

  • Prov 14:1
    68%

    1Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

  • Isa 3:21
    68%

    21the signet rings, the nose rings,

  • Prov 17:12
    68%

    12Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Prov 23:33
    68%

    33Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Job 39:17
    68%

    17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her understanding.

  • Prov 9:16
    68%

    16"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 5:6
    68%

    6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Prov 5:20
    68%

    20For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?