Châm Ngôn 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Context
This verse from Châm Ngôn Chapter 21 connects to 10 cross-references. Proverbs on justice, diligence, and divine sovereignty: the king's heart in the Lord's hand is like channels of water turned wherever he wills. One who closes his ears to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not …
Bản dịch khác
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, <FI>Is<Fi> a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
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Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.