23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 26:23
Fools, Sluggards, Quarrels, Gossip, Deceitful Speech, and the Ruin of Unrestrained Folly
The chapter moves from an extended warning about fools, to the self-deception of sluggards, to the danger of meddling and harmful joking, to gossip as conflict fuel, and finally to the concealed malice of lying and flattering speech.
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Verse 23
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Original words
Like glaze כֶּ֣סֶף H3701 Noun - masculine singular construct . . . סִ֭יגִים H5509 Noun - masculine plural covering מְצֻפֶּ֣ה H6823 Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular . . . עַל־ H5921 Preposition an earthen vessel חָ֑רֶשׂ H2789 Noun - masculine singular are burning דֹּלְקִ֣ים H1814 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural lips שְׂפָתַ֖יִם H8193 Noun - fd and a wicked רָֽע׃ H7451 Adjective - masculine singular heart וְלֶב־ H3820 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
BSB notes
- Hebrew; LXX smooth