Verse List for PROV 26:23

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B I ◄ ← Prov 26:23 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Burning lips and evil motives ⇔ are like a silver overlay on a clay pot.

OET-LV Silver _of dross(es) overlaid on earthenware lips burning and_a _heart _of evil.

ULT Silver of dross overlaid on a clay vessel ⇔ are burning lips and a heart of evil.

UST People who fervently say that they are your friend while thinking about doing evil things to you ⇔  are as deceptive as a cheap clay pot that someone has made to look like silver.

BSB & MSB Like glaze covering an earthen vessel ⇔  are burning[fn] lips and a wicked heart.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Like silver dross on an earthen vessel ⇔  are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

NET Like a coating of glaze over earthenware ⇔ are fervent lips with an evil heart.

LSV Silver of dross spread over potsherd,
[Are] burning lips and an evil heart.

FBV Smooth[fn] talking with evil intent is like a shiny lead glaze on an earthenware pot.[fn]

T4T ⇔  People who say nice things when they are thinking about doing evil things ⇔  are like a nice glaze/covering on a cheap clay pot.

LEB • Like impure silver[fn] which overlays an earthen vessel,
• so are smooth lips and an evil heart[fn].

BBE Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

Moff Smooth words and a vicious soul ⇔  are silvery dross upon a pot of clay.

JPS Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

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

DRA Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.

YLT Silver of dross spread over potsherd, [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.

Drby Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

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

SLT Silver dross covering over a pot-sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.

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

KJB-1769 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

KJB-1611 Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
(Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsherd covered with silver drosse.)

Bshps Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.
(Burning lips and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde covered with silver drosse.)

Gnva As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
(As silver dross/slag overlaid upon a potsherd, so are burning lips, and an evil heart.)

Cvdl Venymous lippes & a wicked herte, are like a potsherde couered wt syluer drosse.
(Venymous lips and a wicked heart, are like a potsherd covered with silver drosse.)

Wycl As if thou wolt ourne a vessel of erthe with foul siluer; so ben bolnynge lippis felouschipid with `the werste herte.
(As if thou/you wilt/will ourne a vessel of earth with foul silver; so been bolning lips felouschipid with the werste heart.)

Luth Giftiger Mund und böses Herz ist wie ein Scherben mit Silberschaum überzogen.
(Giftiger mouth and evil heart is as/like a shards/fragments with silver_foam excessive.)

ClVg Quomodo si argento sordido ornare velis vas fictile, sic labia tumentia cum pessimo corde sociata.
(How/In_what_manner when/but_if with_silver sordido ornare velis vessel/utensil fictile, so lips then/secondlyentia when/with very_bad/injure heart sociata.)

UHB כֶּ֣סֶף סִ֭יגִים מְצֻפֶּ֣ה עַל־חָ֑רֶשׂ שְׂפָתַ֖יִם דֹּלְקִ֣ים וְ⁠לֶב־רָֽע׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἀργύριον διδόμενον μετὰ δόλου, ὥσπερ ὄστρακον ἡγητέον· χείλη λεῖα καρδίαν καλύπτει λυπηράν.

BrTr Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.