6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 t…
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