Proverbs 26:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.

New Living Translation
Smooth words may hide a wicked heart, just as a pretty glaze covers a clay pot.

English Standard Version
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.

Berean Study Bible
Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.

New American Standard Bible
Like an earthenware vessel overlaid with silver impurities Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

NASB 1995
Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

NASB 1977
Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

Amplified Bible
Like a [common] clay vessel covered with the silver dross [making it appear silver when it has no real value] Are burning lips [murmuring manipulative words] and a wicked heart.

Christian Standard Bible
Smooth lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Smooth lips with an evil heart are like glaze on an earthen vessel.

Contemporary English Version
Hiding hateful thoughts behind smooth talk is like coating a clay pot with a cheap glaze.

Good News Translation
Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Like] a clay pot covered with cheap silver, [so] is smooth talk that covers up an evil heart.

International Standard Version
A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver— that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

NET Bible
Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

New King James Version
Fervent lips with a wicked heart Are like earthenware covered with silver dross.

King James 2000 Bible
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

New Heart English Bible
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

World English Bible
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

American King James Version
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

American Standard Version
Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

A Faithful Version
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver dross.

Darby Bible Translation
Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

English Revised Version
Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

Webster's Bible Translation
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
As siluer drosse ouerlayde vpon a potsheard, so are burning lips, and an euill heart.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Venymous lippes & a wicked herte, are like a potsherde couered wt syluer drosse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, "" [Are] burning lips and an evil heart.

Young's Literal Translation
Silver of dross spread over potsherd, Are burning lips and an evil heart.

Smith's Literal Translation
Silver dross covering over a pot-sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In the same manner as an earthen vessel, if it were adorned with impure silver, conceited lips are allied with a wicked heart.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Like tried silver plated over a clay vessel, so are fiery lips and an evil heart.

Lamsa Bible
Like silver dross which sticks to an earthen pot, so are enraged lips and an evil heart.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Burning lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.
















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