Proverbs 21:6
WEB
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
BSB
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
KJV
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H6467
n-m — act, work
Derivation: from 6466;
an act or work (concretely)
KJV: act, deed, do, getting, maker, work.
n.m — doing
פֹּ֫עַל 37 n.m. doing, deed, work (poet. and late)
1. deed, thing done
2. work, thing made
3. wages of work
4. acquisition of treasures
H214
n-m — depository
Derivation: from 686;
a depository
KJV: armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).
n.m — treasure
אוֹצָר n.m. treasure, store, treasury, storehouse
H3956
n-m — tongue
Derivation: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from 3960;
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
n.m — tongue
לָשׁוֹן n.m. and (more oft.) f. tongue
1. tongue of men
2. = language
3. tongue of animals
4. tongue of fire
5. = (tongue-shaped) wedge of gold
6. = (tongue-shaped) bay of sea
H8267
n-m — untruth, sham
Derivation: from 8266;
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
n.m — deception
שֶׁ֫קֶר 113 n.m. deception, disappointment, falsehood
1. deception, what deceives, disappoints, and betrays one
2. deceit, fraud, wrong
3. injurious falsehood, in testimony
4. falsity, of false or self-deceived prophets
5. lie, falsehood, in gen.
H1892
n-m — emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory
Derivation: or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from 1891;
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV: × altogether, vain, vanity.
n.m — vapour
הֶ֫בֶל 73 n.m. vapour, breath
H5086
v — shove, disperse
Derivation: a primitive root;
to shove asunder, i.e. disperse
KJV: drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro.
vb — drive
[נָדַף] vb. drive, drive asunder
H1245
v — search, strive after
Derivation: a primitive root;
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
vb — seek
[בָּקַשׁ] 224 vb. seek
Pi.
1. seek to find
2. seek to secure
3. seek the face
4. desire, demand
5.
a. require, exact
b. exact equivalent or penalty for
6. (late) ask, request
Pu. be sought
H4194
n-m — death, dead, pestilence, ruin
Derivation: from 4191;
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV: (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
n.m — death
מָ֫וֶת 161 n.m. death
1. death, opp. life
2. death by violence
3. state of death or place of death
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Verse 6
Proverbs 21:6
This shows the folly of those that hope to enrich themselves by dishonest practices, by oppressing and over-reaching those with whom they deal, by false-witness-bearing, or by fraudulent contracts, of those that make no scruples of lying when there is any thing to be got by it. They may perhaps heap up treasures by these means, that which they make their treasure; but, 1. They will not meet with the satisfaction they expect. It is a vanity tossed to and fro; it will be disappointment and vexation of spirit to them; they will not have the comfort of it, nor can they put any confidence in it, but will be perpetually uneasy. It will be tossed to and fro by their own consciences, and by the censures of men; let them expect to be in a constant hurry. 2. They will meet with destruction they do not expect. While they are seeking wealth by such unlawful practices they are really seeking death; they lay themselves open to the envy and ill-will of men by the treasures they get, and to the wrath and curse of God, by the lying tongue wherewith they get them, which he will make to fall upon themselves and sink them to hell.