THEOSISProverbs 21:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
- Prov 13:11Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand, shall increase.
- Prov 20:21The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
- Jer 17:11As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
- Prov 8:36But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
- Prov 22:8He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
- Prov 30:8Remove far from me vanity, and lying words. Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life:
- 1 Tim 6:9For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.