Proverbs 26:23
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
In Context
24By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,
Cross References
Proverbs 10:18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4Take away dross from silver, And a vessel for the refiner goeth forth,
Ezekiel 33:31And 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.
Luke 11:39And 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;
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 →