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Proverbs 26:23
As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
Proverbs 26:23 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 26:23 in other translations
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
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In context
20 Without wood the fire is quenched, and without a talebearer strife ceaseth.
21 As ye cole maketh burning coles, and wood a fire, so the contentious man is apt to kindle strife.
22 The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.
23 As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
24 He that hateth, will counterfaite with his lips, but in his heart he layeth vp deceite.
25 Though he speake fauourably, beleeue him not: for there are seuen abominations in his heart.
26 Hatred may be couered by deceite: but the malice thereof shall be discouered in the congregation.
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