Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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Gill's Exposition
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips,.... He that bears a grudge in his mind, and retains hatred in his heart against any person, hides it all he can, till he has an opportunity of showing it as…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Matthew Henry
This may be meant either, 1. Of a wicked heart showing itself in burning lips, furious, passionate, outrageous words, burning in malice, and persecuting those to whom, or of whom, they are spoken; ill…
Cambridge Bible
burning Better, fervent, R.V., with protestations of affection.
a potsherd covered The rendering, an earthen vessel overlaid, R.V. makes the meaning clearer.
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