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Sprueche 21:6

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6 Erwerb von Schätzen durch Lügenzunge ist verwehender Dunst; solche suchen den Tod.

Sprueche 21:6 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
By telling lies in trade; by bearing false witness in a court of judicature; or by preaching false doctrines in the church of God: [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death:
such treasures, though ever so great, are like any light thing, smoke or vapour, straw, stubble, chaff, or a feather, tossed about the wind; which is expressive of the instability uncertainty of riches ill gotten; they do not last long, but are taken away and carried off by one providence or another; and they are likewise harmful and pernicious; they issue in death: and those that seek after them, and obtain them in a bad way, are said to "seek death": not intentionally, but eventually; this they certainly find, if grace prevent not; see ( Proverbs 8:36 ) . Jarchi reads it, they are the "snares of death" to him; and so the Septuagint version.

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Sprueche 21:6 In-Context

4 Stolz der Augen und Hochmut des Herzens, die Leuchte der Gesetzlosen, sind Sünde.
5 Die Gedanken des Fleißigen führen nur zum Überfluß; und jeder, der hastig ist, es ist nur zum Mangel.
6 Erwerb von Schätzen durch Lügenzunge ist verwehender Dunst; solche suchen den Tod.
7 Die Gewalttätigkeit der Gesetzlosen rafft sie hinweg, denn Recht zu üben weigern sie sich.
8 Vielgewunden ist der Weg des schuldbeladenen Mannes; der Lautere aber, sein Tun ist gerade.
The Elberfelder Bible is in the public domain.

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