Proverbs 21:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ Gaining treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapour, heading for death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

Common English Bible

⁶ Those who gain treasure with lies are like a drifting fog, leading to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Whoever gathers treasures by a lying tongue is vain and heartless. And he will stumble into the snares of death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

Proverbs 21:6 Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wrongness are of no value, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth from vanity diminishes, But he who gathers by hand increases.

Proverbs 20:14

“Evil! Evil!” cries the buyer; But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance obtained with greed at the beginning Is not blessed at the end.

Proverbs 22:8

He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove falsehood and a lying word far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me my lawfull bread;

Proverbs 8:36

“But he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me love death!”

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕl?

Titus 1:11

whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.