Proverbs 26:23
“Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.”
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Proverbs 26:23 Context
21As coales are to burning coales, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22The words of a tale-bearer are as woundes, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly. 23Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse. 24Hee that hateth, dissembleth with his lips, and layeth vp deceit within him. 25When he speaketh faire, beleeue him not: for there are seuen abominations in his heart.
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Other Translations for Proverbs 26:23
Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
- King James Version
{Like} an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are `like' an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
- Basic English Bible
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- Darby Bible
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
- Webster's Bible
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
- World English Bible
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Proverbs 26:23
26:23 Burning - With malice or hatred: A slanderous or evil tongue. Dross - Such a tongue and heart are of no real worth, although sometimes they make a shew of it, as dross does of silver.