(A)The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a (B)fleeting (C)vapor and a (D)snare of death.[a]

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Footnotes

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

19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. (A)Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. (B)For it was (C)the stumbling block of their iniquity.

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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (C)‘Fool! (D)This night (E)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (F)whose will they be?’

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