Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Venomous lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered 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.
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.
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.
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 A slanderer's words are like flattery, but they pierce the inward parts of the body. 23 Venomous lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. 24 An enemy dissembleth with his lips, and in the mean season he imagineth mischief;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him, "Now do ye, O Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter: but your inward parts are full of ravening and wickedness.
Luke 22:47-48
While he yet spake: behold, there came a company: and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and pressed nigh unto Jesus to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:9-10
And Joab said to Amasa, "Are all things in rest and peace my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the chin with the right hand, as though he would have kissed him.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that speaketh slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4
Take the dross from the silver, and there shall be a clean vessel thereof.
Ezekiel 33:31
These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.
Matthew 23:27
Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.