Proverbs 26:23
“Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.”
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Proverbs 26:23 Context
21As coales are to burning coales, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22The words of a tale-bearer are as woundes, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly. 23Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse. 24Hee that hateth, dissembleth with his lips, and layeth vp deceit within him. 25When he speaketh faire, beleeue him not: for there are seuen abominations in his heart.
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Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.
- King James Version
{Like} an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- New American Standard Version (1995)