2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 20:9; Ezekiel 33:31; Luke 22:47; Luke 22:48; Proverbs 10:18
Burning lips - i. e., “Lips glowing with, affection, uttering warm words of love,” joined with a malignant heart, are like a piece of broken eart...
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 a...
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; th...
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...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
A potsherd covered with the lead oxide which remains after silver has been refined looks valuable, but is worthless; so are 'fervent lips and a wicke...
Burning lips — i.e. , burning with love, while there is an evil heart within. A potsherd covered with silver dross. — Pottery glazed with dross...
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...
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...
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 hi...
Burning lips, and a wicked heart ,.... Either burning with wrath and malice; breathing out threatenings and slaughter; pursuing men with reproaches...
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...
Burning lips Either, 1st, Lips pretending much love, that is, words delivered with a show of truth and fervent affection; or, rather, 2d, Burning w...
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,...
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...
Burning; either, 1. With love. Words delivered with show of true and fervent affection. Or rather, 2. With malice or hatred. A slanderous or ev...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:23 . Burning lips — i.e. , “lips whence come ardent expressions of friendship.” Silver dross . Impure silver not fre...
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...
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Putrefaction phosphorescent The illuminating power of phosphorus...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
Concerning Busybodies
Burning lips, such as are fervent with demonstrations of regard, and a wicked heart, showing that the glow of the lips is repulsive hypocrisy, are...
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...
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.