Proverbi 26:23

23 Labbra ardenti e un cuor malvagio son come schiuma d’argento spalmata sopra un vaso di terra.

Proverbi 26:23 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 26:23

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, burning with profession of love to God, and affection to good men; with great pretensions of kindness, and promises of good things, when their hearts are wicked, and they design noticing less; say one thing with their lips, with the greatest show of affection and sincerity, and mean another in their hearts. These [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross:
which at a distance, or to less discerning persons, looks like silver, and is taken for it; when the covering is only dross, and what is within is only a potsherd, Or a piece of an earthen vessel, good for nothing: such are the specious professions and deceitful words, which flow from a wicked heart.

Proverbi 26:23 In-Context

21 Come il carbone da la brace, e le legna dànno la fiamma, così l’uomo rissoso accende le liti.

22 Le parole del maldicente son come ghiottonerie, e penetrano fino nell’intimo delle viscere.

23 Labbra ardenti e un cuor malvagio son come schiuma d’argento spalmata sopra un vaso di terra.

24 Chi odia, parla con dissimulazione; ma, dentro, cova la frode.

25 Quando parla con voce graziosa, non te ne fidare, perché ha sette abominazioni in cuore.