Proverbs 21:6
The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and from of them that seeke death.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2The treasures of wickednesse profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Proverbs 20:14It is naught, it is naught, sayth the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.
Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
1 Timothy 6:9For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
2 Peter 2:3And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth 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 →