Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning 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.
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.
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 tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart. 23 Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart. 24 By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
Luke 22:47-48
And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,
2 Samuel 20:9-10
And Joab saith to Amasa, 'Art thou in peace, my brother?' and the right hand of Joab layeth hold on the beard of Amasa to give a kiss to him;
Proverbs 10:18
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4
Take away dross from silver, And a vessel for the refiner goeth forth,
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.
Matthew 23:27
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;