Proverbs 11:22
Modern Translations
New International Version
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

New Living Translation
A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.

English Standard Version
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

Berean Study Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

New American Standard Bible
As a ring of gold in a pig’s snout So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

NASB 1995
As a ring of gold in a swine's snout So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

NASB 1977
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

Contemporary English Version
A beautiful woman who acts foolishly is like a gold ring on the snout of a pig.

Good News Translation
Beauty in a woman without good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Like] a gold ring in a pig's snout, [so] is a beautiful woman who lacks good taste.

International Standard Version
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

NET Bible
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

New King James Version
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.

King James 2000 Bible
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

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

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

American King James Version
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which 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.

A Faithful Version
Like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
As a iewell of golde in a swines snoute: so is a faire woman, which lacketh discretion.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
A faire woman without discrete maners, is lyke a ryng of golde in a swines snoute.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
A fayre woman without discrete maners, is like a rynge of golde in a swynes snoute.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A beautiful woman and stubborn of behavior.

Young's Literal Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

Smith's Literal Translation
A ring of gold in the nose of a swine, a fair woman and she departed from discernment.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Like a nose ring of gold in the snout of the pig, so is a beautiful woman who has turned from discretion.

Lamsa Bible
Like a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman without discretion.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

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
















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