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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.
24 One who hates may camouflage it beneath pleasant words,
    but deep inside him, treachery still rages;

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Footnotes

  1. 26:23 Literally, “silver dross”

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