Proverbs 21:6 - Tree of Life Version

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is like a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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King 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.

Proverbs 21:6 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:2

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 13:11

Wealth gained by fraud dwindles, but he who gathers by labor increases it.

Proverbs 20:14

“It’s bad, bad!” says the buyer, but then he goes away and boasts.

Proverbs 20:21

An estate acquired quickly in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.

Proverbs 22:8

One who sows injustice will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will perish.

Proverbs 30:8

Keep falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with my allotted bread,

Proverbs 8:36

But whoever fails to find me harms his life— all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?

Titus 1:11

They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.