23Like 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.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
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Verse 23
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Like glazeכֶּ֣סֶףH3701Noun - masculine singular construct. . .סִ֭יגִיםH5509Noun - masculine pluralcoveringמְצֻפֶּ֣הH6823Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular. . .עַל־H5921Prepositionan earthen vesselחָ֑רֶשׂH2789Noun - masculine singularare burningדֹּלְקִ֣יםH1814Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plurallipsשְׂפָתַ֖יִםH8193Noun - fdand a wickedרָֽע׃H7451Adjective - masculine singularheartוְלֶב־H3820Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
BSB notes
- Hebrew; LXX smooth