Proverbs 26:23
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Definitions for Proverbs 26:23
Clarke's Proverbs 26:23 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Proverbs 26:23 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Proverbs 26:23 Bible Commentary
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.