22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; …
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. …
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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