As a jewel of gold, &c.— See Job 42:11. The meaning is, "As a jewel of gold would be ill placed in the snout of a swine, which is always raking in the mire; so is beauty ill bestowed on a woman, whose mind, having lost all relish of virtue, carries her from her husband, to wallow in filthy lust and adulterous pleasures." See Bishop Patrick, and Bochart de Animal. pars i. lib. ii. c. 57.
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Proverbs 11:22
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is withoutf discretion.