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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 26:23

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 wicked heart' (RV): cp. Luke 22:47.

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See also Proverbs 26:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 26:23. _BURNING LIPS AND A WICKED HEART_] Splendid, shining, smooth lips; that is, lips which make great professions of friendship are like a _vessel plated_ over with _base metal_ to m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 silve...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which signifies weakness....

  • 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 and defective. PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BURNING LIPS: i.e. warm professions. SILVER DROSS. Figure of speech _Hypallage_ (App-6). Hebrew. silver of dross....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _burning_ Better, FERVENT, R.V., with protestations of affection. _a potsherd covered_ The rendering, AN EARTHEN VESSEL OVERLAID, R.V. makes the meaning clearer....

  • 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._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 26:20-28 20. For lack of wood the fire goeth out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceaseth. 21. As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    You cannot believe everything that you see. Some pots seem silky on the outside. But they are just cheap pots. You cannot believe everything that you hear. Some evil men speak clever words. But they...

  • 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 of silver, a well-known method of ornamentation. For s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֶּ֣סֶף סִ֭יגִים מְצֻפֶּ֣ה עַל ־חָ֑רֶשׂ שְׂפָתַ֖יִם...

  • 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 a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...

  • 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. In this group of proverbs the fool is the subject. The...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Burning lips and (k) a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross. (k) They will soon break out and utter themselves....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dross. Hence the proud will be detested, and appear contemptible._...

  • 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 his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 rather,...

  • 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 the righteous is as fined silver; but glossing lips upo...

  • 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 with malice or hatred; that is, a slanderous or evil...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 LIKE A POTSHERD COVERED WITH SILVER DROSS, impure sil...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING BUSYBODIES...

  • Leslie 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, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 evil tongue; for this word is constantly used in a bad se...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 26:23 Fervent H1814 (H8801) lips H8193 wicked H7451 heart H3820 earthenware H2789 covered H6823 (H8794

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and hear mor...

  • 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 incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 reaction, a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:23 These verses concern the liar. He artfully disguises his lies, and one should take care not to be fooled by him (vv. Proverbs 26:23). Eventually his lies will

  • The 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 freed from the dross. PROVERBS 26:24. LAYETH UP, rather, “_...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening. The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 20:9; Ezekiel 33:31; Luke 22:47; Luke 22:48

  • 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 shew of it, as dross does of silver....

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