Proverbs 26:23
Good News Translation
Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot.

New Revised Standard Version
Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.

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

New American Bible
Like a glazed finish on earthenware are smooth lips and a wicked heart.

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

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Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross.

Proverbs 10:18 In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips, is most wise.

2 Samuel 20:9,10 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him. . . .

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Luke 22:47,48 As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude; and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus, for to kiss him. . . .

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
22The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly. 23Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross.24An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

Proverbs 25:4
Take away the rust from silver, and there shall come forth a most pure vessel:

Proverbs 26:25
When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

Proverbs 26:22
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