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# Like the glaze overlaying an earthen vessel, so are burning lips and an evil heart
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This simile means that a person who says things to hide the evil in their heart are like a earthen vessel covered in glaze to make it look good. These phrases can be reordered. Alternate translation: "People who have burning lips and an evil heart are like an earthen vessel covered with glaze" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# the glaze overlaying an earthen vessel
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"the shiny glaze that covers a clay pot." A clay pot is cheap and common. So people covered it was a glaze to make it shiny and appear more expensive.
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# so are burning lips and an evil heart
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This represents a person who has burning lips and an evil heart. Alternate translation: "so is a person who has burning lips and an evil heart" or "so is a person who says nice things but whose heart is evil" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
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# burning lips
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The word "burning" is a metaphor for "strongly emotional" and the word "lips" is a metonym for "speech." Alternate translation: "emotional speech" or "saying nice things" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# an evil heart
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The heart represents a person's thoughts, attitudes, desires, or feelings. Alternate translation: "evil thoughts" or "evil desires" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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