Proverbs 21:6
He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.
7The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
Proverbs 20:14It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.
2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.
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 →