Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.
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.
American Standard Version
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like 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.
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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
22 The words of a whisperer [are] like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body. 23 [Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. 24 On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but {inside} he will harbor deceit.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 11:39
But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness.
Luke 22:47-48
[While] he was still speaking, behold, [there came] a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:9-10
Then Joab said to Amasa, "Is it peace, O you my brother?" Then the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa [as if] to kiss him.
Proverbs 10:18
He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4
Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.
Matthew 23:27
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!