Proverbs 21:6

He that gathereth treasures by the tongue of a lie maker, ( or of a liar), is vain, and without heart; and he shall be hurled to the snares of death.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 a strong man be ever in abundance; but each slow man is ever in neediness. (The thoughts of a strong person (be) forevermore on abundance, (or on plenty); but those of each person in haste (be) forevermore on neediness./Carefully-made plans shall be successful; but each person in haste shall be forever in need.)

7The ravens of unpious men shall draw them down; for they would not do doom. (The robberies of the wicked shall pull them down; for what they do is wrong.)

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Cross References

Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness shall not profit; but rightfulness shall deliver from death. (Treasures gotten by wickedness shall not profit thee; but uprightness shall deliver thee from death.)

Proverbs 20:14Each buyer saith, It is evil, it is evil; and when he hath gone away, then he shall have glory, (or but after he hath gone away, then he shall boast about it).

Proverbs 22:8He that soweth wickedness shall reap evils; and the rod of his ire shall be ended.

Jeremiah 17:11(As) A partridge nourished those things which she breeded not; (so) he made riches, and not in doom, (or Like a partridge nourished those young which she did not bring forth, so he made riches, but not justly); in the midst of his days he shall forsake them, and in his last time he shall be unwise.

1 Timothy 6:9For they that will be made rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable desires and noxious, which drench men (down) into death and perdition. (For those who will be made rich, fall into testing, and into the Devil’s snare, and into many unprofitable and harmful desires, which drown men down into death and destruction.)

2 Peter 2:3and they shall make merchandise of you in covetousness by feigned words. To whom doom (or judgement) now a while ago ceaseth not, and the perdition of them nappeth 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 →

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