"The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death."
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting breath of them that seek death.
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 fro by them that seek death.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.