Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
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

Smooth lips with an evil heart
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּלק 
Dalaq 
Usage: 9

שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

חרשׂ 
Cheres 
Usage: 17

צפה 
Tsaphah 
Usage: 46

with silver
כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

All About Fools

22 The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
23 Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
24 He who hates disguises it with his lips,
But he lays up deceit in his heart.

Cross References

Luke 11:39

But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

Luke 22:47-48

While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was preceding them; and he approached Jesus to kiss Him.

2 Samuel 20:9-10

Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

Proverbs 10:18

He who conceals hatred has lying lips,
And he who spreads slander is a fool.

Proverbs 25:4

Take away the dross from the silver,
And there comes out a vessel for the smith;

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

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