Proverbs 26:23 ASV

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 26:23

"Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he layeth up deceit within him:When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there are seven abominations in his heart.Though his hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly.Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.A lying tongue hateth them whom it hath wounded; And a... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 26:23

Proverbs 26:23. Burning lips, and a wicked heart— Splendid lips, with a wicked heart. Houbigant. The LXX read, Smooth lips, disguising a wicked heart. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 26:23

23. Warm professions can no more give value to insincerity than silver coating to rude earthenware. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 26:1-28

2. Fools and folly ch. 26The analogies in chapter 25 dealt with both wise and foolish conduct, but those in chapter 26 deal mainly with fools and folly. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 26:1-28

Fools. Sluggards. Talkers1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.1. The Palestinian seasons were more regular than ours (1 Samuel 12:17). 2. This is a contradiction of the idea that the deity invoked in a curse was bound to inflict it (Genesis 27:33; Judges 17:2). The undeserved curse is compared to the aimless movements of a bird. 4, 5. Answer or not, according to circumstances (Matthew 12:30; Mark 9:39). 6. ’He that sends a fool means to follow him.’7. A fool is no more qualified to use a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 26:23

(23) 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 similar proverbs, comp. Matthew 23:27; Luke 11:39. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Proverbs 26:1-28

Proverbs 26:7 'The legs of the lame are not equal:' so, says the wise man, 'is a parable in the mouth of fools'. That is to say, the parable in the mouth of fools is not equal; it fails of an all-round interpretation which will carry conviction concerning the truth which it seeks to emphasize and enforce. I. Some very good people pride themselves on the open mind. They look upon any one who may, upon any subject, arrive at any definite conclusion, which will commit them to any definite opinion,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 26:1-28

CHAPTER 27THE 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 according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage. The legs of the lame hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools. As a... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Proverbs 26:1-28

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. The second word “kesil” occurs nearly fifty times, means fat or dense. The third word is the Hebrew “nabal,” which is derived from the verb to fade, or to wither; it means a vulgar, bad man who has given himself over to wickedness. The natural man in his condition, his darkened mind, his... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Proverbs 26:23

26:23 Burning lips and {k} a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.(k) They will soon break out and utter themselves. read more