Proverbs 26:23 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Like a clay pot covered with cheap silver, so is smooth talk that covers up an evil heart.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

ASV:

Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

BBE:

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

DBY:

Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are as an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

ERV:

Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

JPS:

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

WBS:

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

WEB:

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

YLT:

Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart.

Proverbs 26:23 Cross References

XREF:

Proverbs 25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, And there comes out a vessel for the smith;

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.

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. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

26:23 Burning lips and {k} a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
(k) They will soon break out and utter themselves.

WES:

26:23 Burning - With malice or hatred: A slanderous or evil tongue. Dross - Such a tongue and heart are of no real worth, although sometimes they make a shew of it, as dross does of silver.

MHC:

26:2. He that is cursed without cause, the curse shall do him no more harm than the bird that flies over his head. 3. Every creature must be dealt with according to its nature, but careless and profligate sinners never will be ruled by reason and persuasion. Man indeed is born like the wild ass's colt; but some, by the grace of God, are changed. 4,5. We are to fit our remarks to the man, and address them to his conscience, so as may best end the debate. 6-9. Fools are not fit to be trusted, nor to have any honour. Wise sayings, as a foolish man delivers and applies them, lose their usefulness. 10. This verse may either declare how the Lord, the Creator of all men, will deal with sinners according to their guilt, or, how the powerful among men should disgrace and punish the wicked. 11. The dog is a loathsome emblem of those sinners who return to their vices, 2Pe 2:22. 12. We see many a one who has some little sense, but is proud of it. This describes those who think their spiritual state to be good, when really it is very bad. 13. The slothful man hates every thing that requires care and labour. But it is foolish to frighten ourselves from real duties by fancied difficulties. This may be applied to a man slothful in the duties of religion. 14. Having seen the slothful man in fear of his work, here we find him in love with his ease. Bodily ease is the sad occasion of many spiritual diseases. He does not care to get forward with his business. Slothful professors turn thus. The world and the flesh are hinges on which they are hung; and though they move in a course of outward services, yet they are not the nearer to heaven. 15. The sluggard is now out of his bed, but he might have lain there, for any thing he is likely to bring to pass in his work. It is common for men who will not do their duty, to pretend they cannot. Those that are slothful in religion, will not be at the pains to feed their souls with the bread of life, nor to fetch in promised blessings by prayer. 16. He that takes pains in religion, knows he is working for a good Master, and that his labour shall not be in vain. 17. To make ourselves busy in other men's matters, is to thrust ourselves into temptation. 18,19. He that sins in jest, must repent in earnest, or his sin will be his ruin. 20-22. Contention heats the spirit, and puts families and societies into a flame. And that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning by whisperers and backbiters. 23. A wicked heart disguising itself, is like a potsherd covered with the dross of silver.

CONC:

Ardent Burning Covered Covering Dross Earthen Earthenware Evil Fervent Glaze Heart Lips Overlaid Plated Potsherd Silver Smooth Spread Vessel Waste Wicked

Ardent Burning Coating Covered Covering Dross Earth Earthen Earthenware Evil Fervent Heart Lips Overlaid Plated Potsherd Silver Smooth Spread Vessel Waste Wicked

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