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Sprueche 21:6

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6 Wer Schätze sammelt mit Lßgen, der wird fehlgehen und ist unter denen, die den Tod suchen.

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 Hoffärtige Augen und stolzer Mut, die Leuchte der Gottlosen, ist Sßnde.
5 Die Anschläge eines Emsigen bringen Überfluß; wer aber allzu rasch ist, dem wird's mangeln.
6 Wer Schätze sammelt mit Lßgen, der wird fehlgehen und ist unter denen, die den Tod suchen.
7 Der Gottlosen Rauben wird sie erschrecken; denn sie wollten nicht tun, was recht war.
8 Wer mit Schuld beladen ist, geht krumme Wege; wer aber rein ist, des Werk ist recht.
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