Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
In Context
5The thoughts of a diligent man [lead] only to abundance, but everyone who is hasty, only to want.
7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, because they refuse to do justice.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:14It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.
2 Peter 2:3And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:6
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Here is, 1. The way to be rich. If we would live plentifully and comfortably in the world, we must be diligent in our business, and not shrink from the toil and trouble of it, but prosecute it closely, improving all advantages and opportunities for it, and doing what we do with all our might; yet we must not be hasty in it, nor hurry ourselves and others with it, but keep doing fair and softly, which, we say,… Read the whole commentary →