Similitudes and Instructions
Proverbs 26:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.Hebrew; LXX smooth
- KJV
- 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.
- ASV
- Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- LSV
- Silver of dross spread over potsherd, || [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
- YLT
- Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
- DBY
- Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- DRC
- Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.
- GNV
- As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
- JPS
- Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
- LXXE
- Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- כֶּ֣סֶף סִ֭יגִים מְצֻפֶּ֣ה עַל־חָ֑רֶשׂ שְׂפָתַ֖יִם דֹּלְקִ֣ים וְלֶב־רָֽע׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀργύριον διδόμενον μετὰ δόλου, ὥσπερ ὄστρακον ἡγητέον· χείλη λεῖα καρδίαν καλύπτει λυπηράν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Luke 22:47–48While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”
- Luke 11:39“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
- Proverbs 10:18The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
- Proverbs 25:4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
- Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him. Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and…
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