Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 21:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death. American Standard Version (1901) The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death. Common English Bible Those who gain treasure with lies are like a drifting fog, leading to death. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death. |
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: But he that gathereth by labour shall have increase.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
As 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.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereto ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.