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21 Like charcoal to smoldering embers and dry wood to a fire,
    so a hot-tempered man kindles strife.
22 Whispered gossip is like a delicious first course:
    it is devoured with pleasure and then penetrates deep within you.

23 Like a shiny glaze[a] coating a rough clay pot,
    so are burning lips that conceal an evil heart.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:23 Literally, “silver dross”

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