Proverbs 11:22 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:22: As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout,.... The allusion seems to be to the ringing of swine, to prevent their rooting up the earth; which is usually done by putting an iron ring into their snout; which is much more proper and suitable than a gold ring, or a jewel set in gold, which is very unbecoming such a creature; and is soon...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:22: Jewels were often suspended from the nose (Gen 24:47; Isa 3:21). Thus adorned, a hog disgusts less than a fair and indiscreet woman.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:22: Pro 11:22 22 A golden ring in a swine’s snout - A fair woman and without delicacy. This is the first instance of an emblematical proverb in which the first and second lines are related to each other as figure and its import, vid., p. 9. The lxx translates rhythmically, but by its ὥσπερ ... οὕτως it destroys the character of this picture-book proverbial form.