“Quomodo si argento sordido ornare velis vas fictile, sic labia tumentia cum pessimo corde sociata.”
“Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.”
“Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.”
“Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.”
“Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.”
Dross. Hence the proud will be detested, and appear contemptible.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.