21 As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
    so is (A)a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
22 (B)The words of (C)a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.
23 (D)Like the (E)glaze[a] covering an earthen vessel
    are fervent lips with an evil heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:23 By revocalization; Hebrew silver of dross

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