PROVERBS CHAPTER 11.
V. 20. They that are of a froward heart, full of crookedness and malice, are abomination to the Lord; but such as are upright in their way, pure and straightforward in their conduct, are His delight, with them He is well pleased.
V. 21. Though hand join in hand, literally, “hand in hand,” as a pledge or guarantee, that is, most assuredly, the wicked shall not be unpunished; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered, the generation of the righteous, all who practice righteousness, will escape punishment.
V. 22. As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, a nose-ring such as is worn in the Orient, so is a fair woman which is without discretion, without a sense of propriety and modesty, her beauty corresponding to the golden nose-ring and her immodesty to the swine s coarseness, in either case a disgusting sight to behold.