Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.
Revised Version 1895
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 violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; because they refuse to do judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 20:14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Jeremiah 17:11As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:9But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Peter 2:3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction 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 →