Proverbs 26:23
Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
In Context
24An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:18He that hydeth hatred with lying lippes, and he that speaketh slaunder, is a foole.
Proverbs 25:4Take the drosse from the siluer, and there shalbe a vessell for the siner.
Luke 11:39And the Lorde said vnto him: Now do ye pharisees make cleane the outsyde of the cuppe, and the platter, but the inward part is full of your rauenyng and wickednesse.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:21-23
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Contention is as a fire; it heats the spirit, burns up all that is good, and puts families and societies into a flame. Now here we are told how that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning, that we may avoid the occasions… Read the whole commentary →