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Proverbs 26:21-23
Evangelical Heritage Version
Proverbs 26:21-23
Evangelical Heritage Version
21 As charcoal is to hot embers and as wood is to fire,
so a quarrelsome person is to igniting a fight.
22 Words of a gossip are like food that is easy to swallow.
They go down to the depths of one’s heart.[a]
23 Fervent[b] lips and an evil heart
are like a glaze[c] covering a clay pot.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 26:22 Literally the innermost rooms of the belly
- Proverbs 26:23 The translation follows the Hebrew. The Greek Old Testament reads smooth.
- Proverbs 26:23 The Hebrew text reads silver dross. Combining two Hebrew words into one word yields the translation glaze.
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