Proverbs 21:6
New International Version
A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

New Living Translation
Wealth created by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.

English Standard Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Berean Standard Bible
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

King James Bible
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

New King James Version
Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

New American Standard Bible
The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

NASB 1995
The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

NASB 1977
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

Legacy Standard Bible
Working for treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting breath, by those who pursue death.

Amplified Bible
Acquiring treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the seeking and pursuit of death.

Christian Standard Bible
Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Making a fortune through a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The effect of a treasure by a lying tongue is even unto destruction; those that seek death will be overthrown.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.

Contemporary English Version
Cheating to get rich is a foolish dream and no less than suicide.

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

English Revised Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who gather wealth by lying are wasting time. They are looking for death.

Good News Translation
The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear, but not before they lead you into the jaws of death.

International Standard Version
A fortune gained by deceit is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapour driven to and fro; they [that seek them] seek death.

Literal Standard Version
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, | [Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

Majority Standard Bible
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

New American Bible
Trying to get rich by lying is chasing a bubble over deadly snares.

NET Bible
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

New Revised Standard Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

New Heart English Bible
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Webster's Bible Translation
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by them that seek death.

World English Bible
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Young's Literal Translation
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

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Context
The King's Heart
5The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty. 6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit. 7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.…

Cross References
Proverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."

Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.

Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.


Treasury of Scripture

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

getting

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 20:14,21
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth…

seek

Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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?

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(6) Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.--Rather, is (as) the driven (fleeting) breath of those who are seeking death. They are seeking in reality not riches, but death, and these riches will vanish like their own breath. (Comp. Wisdom Of Solomon 5:14; Psalm 68:2).

Verse 6. - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue - the acquisition of wealth by fraud and falsehood - is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. The latter clause is variously rendered and interpreted. The Hebrew is literally, a fleeting breath, those seeking death. The Revised Version makes the last words a separate proposition, "They that seek them seek death." But this seems unnecessary, and somewhat opposed to the gnomic style, which often combines two predicates in one construction; and there is no reason why we should not render the words, as in the Authorized Version, "of seekers of death." Such a mode of obtaining wealth is as evanescent and unstable as the very breath, and ends in death, which is practically the result of their quest. Thus Wisd. 5:14, "The hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with the tempest, and passeth away. as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day." Some think that the comparison regards the mirage of the desert, which deceives travellers with the phantasms of cool waters and refreshing shade. Such an allusion is found in Isaiah 35:7. The Talmud enjoins, "Speak no word that accords not with the truth, that thy honour may not vanish as the waters of a brook." The Septuagint and Vulgate have followed a different reading (מוק שׁי־מות), and render thus: Vulgate, Vanus et excors est, et impingetur ad laqueos mortis, "He is vain and foolish, and will be taken in the snares of death;" Septuagint, "pursues vain things unto the snares of death (ἐπὶ παγίδας)" (Proverbs 13:14; Proverbs 14:27). So St. Paul says (1 Timothy 6:9), "They that desire to be rich fall into a into a temptation and a snare (παγίδα), and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Making
פֹּ֣עַל (pō·‘al)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6467: Doing, deed, work

a fortune
א֭וֹצָרוֹת (’ō·w·ṣā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 214: Treasure, store, a treasury, storehouse

by a lying
שָׁ֑קֶר (šā·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8267: Deception, disappointment, falsehood

tongue
בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן (bil·šō·wn)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 3956: The tongue

is a vanishing
נִ֝דָּ֗ף (nid·dāp̄)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5086: To shove asunder, disperse

mist,
הֶ֥בֶל (he·ḇel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

a deadly
מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

pursuit.
מְבַקְשֵׁי־ (mə·ḇaq·šê-)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after


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