Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
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.
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.
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.