Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
New American Standard Bible
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
King James Version
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Holman Bible
are like glaze on an earthen vessel.
International Standard Version
A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.
A Conservative Version
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Darby Translation
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are as an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
Julia Smith Translation
Silver dross covering over a pot-sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.
King James 2000
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.
Modern King James verseion
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver waste.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Venomous lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
NET Bible
Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
New Heart English Bible
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
The Emphasized Bible
Dross silver overlaid upon earthenware, so are burning lips, with a mischievous heart:
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart.
Themes
Heart » The heart of the wicked
Religion » Characteristics of » False profession
Speech/communication » Burning lips
Wicked people » Compared with » Potsherds
Wicked, the, are compared to » Potsherds
Topics
Interlinear
Saphah
Ra`
Leb
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts. 23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. 24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he layeth up deceit within him:
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Luke 22:47-48
While he yet spake, behold, a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them; and he drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:9-10
And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, And there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.