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22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Proverbs 11:22

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 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 ther...

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