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¶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.

¶ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them because they refuse to do judgment.

¶ The way of the perverse man is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

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A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.[a](A)

The violence of the wicked will drag them away,(B)
    for they refuse to do what is right.

The way of the guilty is devious,(C)
    but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death