Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapour for those who seek death.
World English Bible British
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 surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
7The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 20:14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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 middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
2 Peter 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, 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 →