Proverbs
King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 26:23
“Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.”
King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 26:23 Context
20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 21As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. 23Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. 24He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; 25When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. 26Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
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Translation Details for Proverbs 26:23
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Other Translations for Proverbs 26:23
Bible Commentary for Proverbs 26:23
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.
Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
{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
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- Darby Bible
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- English Revised Version
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
- World English Bible