Proverbs 11:22
WEB
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
BSB
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
KJV
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H5141
n-m — nose-ring
Derivation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
a nose-ring
KJV: earring, jewel.
n.m — ring
נֶ֫זֶם n.m. ring, always of gold when material mentioned
H2091
n-m — gold, something gold-colored, oil, clear sky
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to shimmer;
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV: gold(-en), fair weather.
n.m — gold
זָהָב 385 n.m. gold
1. = gold-ore, gold in raw state
2. gold as wealth
3. gold as spoil of war
4. gold as merchandise
5. gold as costly gift
6. gold as material
7. gold described by its source
8. gold defined by var. adj. and pts.
9. as measure of weight and value
10. = golden oil, from colour
11. often named with
12. the chief vbs. used
H639
n-m — nose, nostril, face, person, ire
Derivation: from 599;
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV: anger(-gry), before, countenance, face, forebearing, forehead, (long-) suffering, nose, nostril, snout, × worthy, wrath.
n.m — nostril
אַף 277 n.m. nostril, nose, face, anger
1. nostril, as organ of breathing
2. Dn. face
3. mostly anger
H2386
n-m — hog, penned
Derivation: from an unused root probably meaning to inclose;
a hog (perhaps as penned)
KJV: boar, swine.
n.m — swine
חֲזִיר n.m. swine, boar
H802
n-f — woman
Derivation: feminine of 376 or 582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים;(used in the same wide sense as 582)
a woman
KJV: (adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
n.f — woman
אִשָּׁה 773 n.f. woman, wife, female
1. woman
2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually cstr. or sf.)
3. Female of animals
4. With distrib. & recipr. sense, each woman from her neighbor; each one
H3303
a — beautiful
Derivation: from 3302;
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
KJV: beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), goodly, pleasant, well.
adj — fair
יָפֶה adj. fair, beautiful
H5493
v — turn
Derivation: or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root;
to turn off (literally or figuratively)
KJV: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
vb — turn aside
סוּר and [שׂוּר] 300 vb. turn aside
Qal
1. turn aside, out of one's course
2. depart
3. of lifeless things = be removed
4. = come to an end
Pô‛lēl he turned aside my ways (my steps)
Hiph.
1. cause to (turn aside,) depart, common word for remove, take away
2. rarer uses
Pô‛lēl be taken away, removed
H2940
n-m — taste, perception, intelligence, mandate
Derivation: from 2938;
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
KJV: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
n.m — taste
טַ֫עַם n.m. taste, judgment
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Verse 22
Proverbs 11:22
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. It is taken for granted here that beauty or comeliness of body is as a jewel of gold, a thing very valuable, and, where there is wisdom and grace to guard against the temptations of it, it is a great ornament, (Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus - Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty); but a foolish wanton woman, of a light carriage, is fitly compared to a swine, though she be ever so handsome, wallowing in the mire of filthy lusts, with which the mind and conscience are defiled, and, though washed, returning to them. 2. It is lamented that beauty should be so abused as it is by those that have not modesty with it. It seems ill-bestowed upon them; it is quite misplaced, as a jewel in a swine's snout, with which he roots in the dunghill. If beauty be not guarded by virtue, the virtue is exposed by the beauty. It may be applied to all other bodily endowments and accomplishments; it is a pity that those should have them who have not discretion to use them well.