Proverbs 21:6
Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.
Catholic Public Domain 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
7The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.
Proverbs 20:14“It is bad, it is bad,” says every buyer; and when he has withdrawn, then he will boast.
Proverbs 22:8Whoever sows iniquity will reap evils, and by the rod of his own wrath he will be consumed.
Jeremiah 17:11A partridge has hatched eggs that she did not lay; a man has gathered riches, but without judgment. In the midst of his days, he will leave it all behind, and he will be foolish concerning his very end.”
1 Timothy 6:9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
2 Peter 2:3And in avarice, they will negotiate about you with false words. Their judgment, in the near future, is not delayed, and their perdition does not sleep.
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 →