Proverbs 26:23 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 26:23

Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

BSB

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ASV

Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

KJV

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Burning lips, and a wicked heart,.... Either burning with wrath and malice; breathing out threatenings and slaughter; pursuing men with reproaches and slanders, arising from a wicked heart: or rather, burning with profession of love to God, and affection to good men; with great pretensions of kindness, and promises of good things, when their hearts are wicked, and they design noticing less; say one thing with their lips, with the greatest show of affection and sincerity, and mean another in their hearts.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Burning lips - i. e., “Lips glowing with, affection, uttering warm words of love,” joined with a malignant heart, are like a piece of broken earthenware from the furnace, which glitters with the silver drops at stick to it, but is itself worthless.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֶּ֣סֶף	Ke.sef	silver of	H3701 →
סִ֭יגִים	Si.gim	dross<es>	H5509 →
מְצֻפֶּ֣ה	me.tzu.Peh	overlaid	H6823 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
חָ֑רֶשׂ	Cha.res	earthenware	H2789 →
שְׂפָתַ֖יִם	se.fa.Ta.yim	lips	H8193 →
דֹּלְקִ֣ים	do.le.Kim	burning	H1814 →
וְלֶב־	ve.lev-	and a heart of	H3820 →
רָֽע׃	Ra'	evil	H7451 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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Ezekiel 33:31
So 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…
leads to
- Matthew 13:22
  The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
- Psalms 78:36–37
  But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
- James 1:22–24
  Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
- Luke 11:28
  But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Isaiah 29:13
  Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
Through
Matthew 23:27
Woe 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.
leads to
- Luke 11:44
  Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
- Acts 23:3
  Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”
Through
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.
leads to
- Titus 1:15
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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