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  • From: kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Proverbs 16:27
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 23:34:54 +0000


Karl and Yitzhak,

I thought Proverbs 16:27 might say "an evil man is the furnace (kaf vav resh
as kaf resh) of evil (hay resh ayin hay), and upon his lips it (evil) burns
like a fire." I am not sure if it is grammatically correct this way.

According to Yitzhak a German scholar said the same thing, so it is probably
something other people have considered too.

Yitzhak, I like this one better than your way because the lips part does not
sound right in your way. I don't think a furnace would burn on his lips, but
the evil man as the furnace with evil burning on his lips sounds like other
quotes describing how people spoke evil things.

Kenneth Greifer
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