Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Is a fleeting vapor, the
King James Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Holman Bible
is a vanishing mist,
International Standard Version
A fortune gained by deceit is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.
A Conservative Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
American Standard Version
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
Amplified
Acquiring treasures by a lying tongue
Is a fleeting vapor, the seeking and pursuit of death.
Bible in Basic English
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
Darby Translation
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
Julia Smith Translation
The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.
King James 2000
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.
Modern King James verseion
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso hordeth up riches with the deceitfulness of his tongue: he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.
NET Bible
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
New Heart English Bible
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
The Emphasized Bible
The gaining of treasures with a tongue of falsehood, is a vapour driven away, they who seek them seek death,
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
Themes
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
Lying » Vanity of getting riches by
Lying/lies » The acquiring of wealth by lying
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Get, by vanity
The lord seeking that which was lost » Those that seek death
Vanity » Riches gotten by falsehood are
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
5
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
6
Is a fleeting vapor, the
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Proverbs 8:36
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Proverbs 20:14
"Bad, bad," says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.
Proverbs 22:8
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.