“ Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. ”
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...
Burning lips and (k) a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross. (k) They will soon break out and utter themselves.
The Book of Fools. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2 ). The text is unusually corrupt and defective. Proverbs 26:1 . For the opposit...
Burning lips: i.e. warm professions. silver dross. Figure of speech Hypallage (App-6). Hebrew. silver of dross.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Burning lips and a wicked heart - Splendid, shining, smooth lips; that is, lips which make great professions of friend...
Burning lips, and a wicked heart— Splendid lips, with a wicked heart. Houbigant. The LXX read, Smooth lips, disguising a wicked heart.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Burning lips (lips professing burning love) and a wicked heart (underneath) (are like) a potsherd covered with s...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Burning lips — i.e. , burning with love, while there is an evil heart within. A potsherd covered with silver dross. — Pottery glazed with dross of silver, a well-known method of ornamentation....
CHAPTER 27 THE FOOL "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool ac...
Verse Proverbs 26:2 . Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm. Verses Proverbs 26:3-12 . In this group of proverbs the fool is the su...
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
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 rath...
Burning lips and a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross. Ver. 23. Burning lips and a wicked heart, &c. ] The tongue of the righteous is as fined silver; but glossing li...
Burning lips Either, 1st, Lips pretending much love, that is, words delivered with a show of truth and fervent affection; or, rather, 2d, Burning with malice or hatred; that is, a slanderous or evi...
THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred...
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. This may be meant either, 1. Of a wicked heart showing itself in burning lips, furious, passio...
Burning; either, 1. With love. Words delivered with show of true and fervent affection. Or rather, 2. With malice or hatred. A slanderous or evil tongue; for this word is constantly used in a b...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:23 . Burning lips — i.e. , “lips whence come ardent expressions of friendship.” Silver dross . Impure silver not freed from the dross. Proverbs 26:24 . Layeth up...
Proverbs 26:1 . As snow in summer, which beats down the fruits; and as rain in harvest, which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he w...
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Putrefaction phosphorescent The illuminating power of phosphorus appears due to an extremely slow chemical reactio...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22 ). Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summe...
Concerning Busybodies
2 Samuel 20:10 ; 2 Samuel 20:9 ; Ezekiel 33:31 ; Luke 22:47 ; Luke 22:48 ; Proverbs 10:18
Burning — With malice or hatred: A slanderous or evil tongue. Dross — Such a tongue and heart are of no real worth, although sometimes they make a shew of it, as dross does of silver.