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Proverbs 21:6 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Proverbs 21:6

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4 A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

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

7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

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This verse shows the foolishness of people who try to get rich by dishonest means. They oppress others, cheat them in business, lie in court, or use fraud in contracts. Some think they can lie whenever there is money to gain, but that path is full of sin and danger.

They may pile up wealth this way, and call it their treasure, but they will not get the satisfaction they expect. It is only a fading thing, full of disappointment and trouble of heart. They will have no real comfort in it, and they cannot trust it. Their own consciences will keep troubling them, and other people will also condemn them, so they will live in constant unrest.

Worse than that, they will meet a destruction they never planned for. While they are chasing unlawful gain, they are really courting death. Their wealth will stir up the envy and anger of others, and their lying tongues will bring down God’s wrath and curse. In the end, God will make their own sin fall back on them and ruin them.

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"Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death."

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Proverbs 17:20

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"In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber."

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Psalms 5:9

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"For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue."

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Job 3:21

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"who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,"

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Wisdom 1:11

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"Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul."

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Proverbs 21:1

"The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires."

Proverbs 21:2

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts."

Proverbs 21:3

"To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice."

Proverbs 21:4

"A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin."

Proverbs 21:5

"The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty."

Proverbs 21:7

"The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right."

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