Verse List for PROV 21:6

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Part a: Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator
Part b: Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=unclear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Wealth that’s acquired via a lying tongue, ⇔ → will be like a quick breath for those seeking death.

OET-LV the_acquisition _of treasures by_a _tongue _of falsehood is_a _breath driven _about seekers _of death.

ULT The making of treasures by a tongue of falsehood ⇔ is scattered vapor, seekers of death.

UST When people gain wealth by speaking falsely, ⇔  that wealth quickly vanishes like mist, and doing that will kill them.

BSB & MSB Making a fortune by a lying tongue ⇔  is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Getting treasures by a lying tongue ⇔  is a fleeting vapour for those who seek death.

NET Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; ⇔ they seek death.

LSV The making of treasures by a lying tongue,
[Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

FBV Money made by lies is like smoke in the wind—a chase that ends in death.

T4T ⇔  Money that people acquire by cheating others by lying [MTY] to them will soon disappear like a mist, ⇔  and doing that will soon lead to their death.

LEB • He who makes treasure by a lying tongue
• is a fleeting vapor and seeker[fn] of death.

BBE He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

Moff A man making money by fraud ⇔  chases a bubble to his own doom.

JPS The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

ASV The getting of treasures by a lying tongue ⇔ Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

DRA He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

YLT The making of treasures by a lying tongue, [Is] a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

Drby The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.

RV The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

SLT The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.

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

KJB-1769 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
(The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and from of them that seek death.)

KJB-1611 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps To hoorde vp riches with a deceiptfull tongue, is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
(To hoorde up riches with a deceitful tongue, is vanity tossed to and from of them that seek death.)

Gnva The gathering of treasures by a deceitfull tongue is vanitie tossed to and from of them that seeke death.
(The gathering of treasures by a deceitful tongue is vanity tossed to and from of them that seek death.)

Cvdl Who so hoordeth vp riches wt ye disceatfulnes of his tonge, he is a foole, & like vnto them that seke their owne death.
(Whoso/Whoever hoordeth up riches with ye/you_all deceitfulness of his tongue, he is a fool, and like unto them that seek their own death.)

Wycl He that gaderith tresours bi the tunge of a leesing, is veyne, and with outen herte; and he schal be hurtlid to the snaris of deth.
(He that gathereth/gathers treasures by the tongue of a leesing, is vain, and without heart; and he shall be hurtlid to the snaris of death.)

Luth Wer Schätze sammelt mit Lügen, der wird fehlen und fallen unter die den Tod suchen.
(Who treasures(n) collects with lie(s), the/of_the becomes miss/lack and fall/drop under the the death search_for.)

ClVg [Qui congregat thesauros lingua mendacii vanus et excors est, et impingetur ad laqueos mortis.
([Who gathers treasures tongue/language lies vanus and excors it_is, and impingetur to traps of_death.)

UHB פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּ⁠לְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὁ ἐνεργῶν θησαυρίσματα γλώσσῃ ψευδεῖ, μάταια διώκει ἐπὶ παγίδας θανάτου.

BrTr He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death.