Proverbs 26:23

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 silver dross - a fragment of common earthenware covered with silver full of dross.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Burning lips and (k) a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross. (k) They will soon break out and utter themselves.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Burning lips: i.e. warm professions. silver dross. Figure of speech Hypallage (App-6). Hebrew. silver of dross.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Burning lips, and a wicked heart— Splendid lips, with a wicked heart. Houbigant. The LXX read, Smooth lips, disguising a wicked heart.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Burning lips — i.e. , burning with love, while there is an evil heart within. A potsherd covered with silver dross. — Pottery glazed with dross...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Burning lips, and a wicked heart ,.... Either burning with wrath and malice; breathing out threatenings and slaughter; pursuing men with reproaches...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:23 . Burning lips — i.e. , “lips whence come ardent expressions of friendship.” Silver dross . Impure silver not fre...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Putrefaction phosphorescent The illuminating power of phosphorus...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning Busybodies
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 20:10 ; 2 Samuel 20:9 ; Ezekiel 33:31 ; Luke 22:47 ; Luke 22:48 ; Proverbs 10:18
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 26:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 26:23