Proverbs 26:23 “Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked he…”

Proverbs 26:23

Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

World English Bible

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

American Standard Version

Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

Geneva Bible 1599

As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.

Darby Translation

Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

Young's Literal Translation

Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.

Bible in Basic English

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

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Cross references

“Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.”

Proverbs 10:18 Ezekiel 33:31 2 Samuel 20:9 2 Samuel 20:10 Luke 22:47 Luke 22:48

Proverbs 10:18 · BSB

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Ezekiel 33:31 · BSB

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

2 Samuel 20:9 · BSB

“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

2 Samuel 20:10 · BSB

Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his…

Luke 22:47 · BSB

While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him.

Luke 22:48 · BSB

But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

Also

Luke 11:39 Matthew 23:27 Proverbs 25:4

Luke 11:39 · BSB

Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Matthew 23:27 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Proverbs 25:4 · BSB

Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

24A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.

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