Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death.
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 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 thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenty; but the thoughts of everyone who is hasty only to poverty. 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro by those who seek death. 7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them, because they refuse to do judgment.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be taken away, but he who gathers by hand shall increase.
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivers from death.
2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.
Proverbs 20:14
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
Proverbs 22:8
He who sows iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 30:8
remove far from me vanity and a lying word; give me neither poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,
Jeremiah 17:11
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your sins by which you have sinned; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.
Titus 1:11
whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.