the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Proverbs 26:23
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Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver drossAre fiery lips and an evil heart.
Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Fervent lips with a wicked heart Are like earthenware covered with silver dross.
As with silver dross spread over an earthen vessel, so are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Good words that hide an evil heart are like silver paint over a cheap, clay pot.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel Are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Venymous lippes & a wicked herte, are like a potsherde couered wt syluer drosse.
Smooth talk from an evil heart is like glaze on cracked pottery.
Like a [common] clay vessel covered with the silver dross [making it appear silver when it has no real value] Are burning lips [murmuring manipulative words] and a wicked heart.
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are [like] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
Hiding hateful thoughts behind smooth talk is like coating a clay pot with a cheap glaze.
Like silver slag overlaid on a clay pot are lips that burn [with friendship] over a hating heart.
As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
Like silver dross which sticks to an earthen pot, so are enraged lips and an evil heart.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel Are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Burning lips and a sinful heart are like a pot covered with silver waste.
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.
Dross silver overlaid upon earthenware, so are burning lips, with a mischievous heart:
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.
Like impure silver which overlays an earthen vessel, so are smooth lips and an evil heart.
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.
Like an earthenware vessel overlaid with silver impurities Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Kind words from a wicked mind are like a shiny coating on a clay pot.
Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot.
Smooth lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel.
As if thou wolt ourne a vessel of erthe with foul siluer; so ben bolnynge lippis felouschipid with `the werste herte.
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
That is, ardent professions of friendship from a wicked heart, however smooth, shining, and splendid they may appear, are like a vile vessel covered over with base metal. Proverbs 10:18, 2 Samuel 20:9, 2 Samuel 20:10, Ezekiel 33:31, Luke 22:47, Luke 22:48
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:27 - that I 2 Samuel 3:26 - he sent Ezra 4:2 - Let us Psalms 28:3 - mischief Proverbs 27:6 - the kisses Ecclesiastes 7:9 - anger Jeremiah 40:14 - Ishmael Jeremiah 41:1 - they did Jeremiah 41:6 - weeping Daniel 11:27 - shall be to Mark 12:14 - Master
Cross-References
Then he named the place Beersheba (which means "well of the oath"), because that was where they had sworn the oath.
So Jacob set out for Egypt with all his possessions. And when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Then all the Israelites were united as one man, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, including those from across the Jordan in the land of Gilead. The entire community assembled in the presence of the Lord at Mizpah.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Burning lips, and a wicked heart,.... Either burning with wrath and malice; breathing out threatenings and slaughter; pursuing men with reproaches and slanders, arising from a wicked heart: or rather, burning with profession of love to God, and affection to good men; with great pretensions of kindness, and promises of good things, when their hearts are wicked, and they design noticing less; say one thing with their lips, with the greatest show of affection and sincerity, and mean another in their hearts. These
[are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross: which at a distance, or to less discerning persons, looks like silver, and is taken for it; when the covering is only dross, and what is within is only a potsherd, Or a piece of an earthen vessel, good for nothing: such are the specious professions and deceitful words, which flow from a wicked heart.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Burning lips - i. e., “Lips glowing with, affection, uttering warm words of love,” joined with a malignant heart, are like a piece of broken earthenware from the furnace, which glitters with the silver drops at stick to it, but is itself worthless.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 26:23. Burning lips and a wicked heart — Splendid, shining, smooth lips; that is, lips which make great professions of friendship are like a vessel plated over with base metal to make it resemble silver; but it is only a vile pot, and even the outside is not pure.
