Verse 6

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

Referenced Verses

• Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
• Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
• Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• Prov 20:14 : 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
• Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
• Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
• Ezek 18:31 : 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?
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.