Proverbs 21:6
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
Berean Standard Bible
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 plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Proverbs 20:14“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
1 Timothy 6:9Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction 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 →