Proverbs 21:6 - 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.

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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.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 21:6 Cross References

Proverbs 10:2

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: But he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Proverbs 20:14

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Proverbs 22:8

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: And the rod of his anger shall fail.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with food convenient for me:

Proverbs 8:36

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.