Pro Proverbs, chapter Proverbs of Solomon, chapter 26
Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd (piece of broken pottery) covered with silver dross.
Proverbs 26:23 in different translations
English
KJV (66 books)
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
DRA
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.
FBV
Smooth talking with evil intent is like a shiny lead glaze on an earthenware pot.
GNV
As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.
JPS
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
LSV
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, || [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.
NASB
Like an earthenware vessel overlaid with silver impurities Are burning lips and a wicked heart. NASB 2020
NIV (US)
Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
OJB
Fervent sfatayim (lips) and a lev rah are like earthenware covered with silver dross.
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.
WEB (US)
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
Russian
РСП (66 кн.)
Что нечистым серебром обложенный глиняный сосуд, то пламенные уста и сердце злобное.
НРП
Что глазурь, покрывающая глиняный горшок, — пламенные уста при злобном сердце.
Заокская (Кулаков)
Как изгарь, что покрывает глиняный сосуд, так речи льстивые при злобном сердце.
СП (БЛ)
Приятные слова, скрывающие злые планы, подобны серебряной краске на дешёвом глиняном горшке.