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23Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Proverbs 26:23 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 23)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 words and ill-will agree as well together as a potsherd and the dross of silver , which, now that the pot is broken and the dross separated from the silver, are fit to be thrown together to the dung...
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