Revised Version 1895
Proverbs 21:6
6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.
Proverbs 21:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- New International Version (NIV)A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.
Context of Proverbs 21:6
4An high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin. 5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death. 7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; because they refuse to do judgment. 8The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked: but as for the pure, his work is right.
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פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 21:6
- Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Proverbs 13:11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall have increase.
- Proverbs 20:14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
- Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
- Proverbs 30:8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me:
- Jeremiah 17:11As 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.
- 1 Timothy 6:9But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
- 2 Peter 2:3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
- Proverbs 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- Ezekiel 18:31Cast 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?
Commentaries on Proverbs 21:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Of them that seek death - Instead of מבקשי mebakshey, "them that seek," several MSS., some ancient editions, with Symmachus, the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Arabic, have מקשי mokeshey, the snares. He who gets treasures by a lying tongue, pursues vanity into the snares of death. Our common translation may be as good. But he who, by the snares of his tongue, endeavors to buy and sell to the best advantage, is pursuing what is empty in itself; and he is…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Vanity - Or, “a breath driven to and fro of those that are seeking death.” Another reading of the last words is: “of the snares of death” (compare 1 Timothy 6:9). Some commentators have suggested that the “vapor” or “mist” is the mirage of the desert, misleading those who follow it, and becoming a “net of death.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6Verse 6 While men seek wealth by unlawful practices, they seek death.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. The getting--or, "what is obtained" (compare Job 7:2; Jr 22:13, Hebrew). vanity ... to and fro--as fleeting as chaff or stubble in the wind (compare Pr 20:17-21; Psa 62:10). Such gettings are unsatisfactory. them ... death--act as if they did (Pr 8:36; 17:19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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