(A)Getting treasures by a lying tongue
[a]Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

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  1. Proverbs 21:6 LXX Pursue vanity on the snares of death; Vg. Is vain and foolish, and shall stumble on the snares of death; Tg. They shall be destroyed, and they shall fall who seek death

21 (A)An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning
(B)Will not be blessed at the end.

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11 (A)Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished,
But he who gathers by labor will increase.

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(A)Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
(B)But righteousness delivers from death.

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36 But he who sins against me (A)wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.”

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Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches—
(A)Feed me with the food allotted to me;

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He who sows iniquity will reap (A)sorrow,[a]
And the rod of his anger will fail.

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  1. Proverbs 22:8 trouble

By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction [a]does not slumber.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:3 M will not

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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31 (A)Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a (B)new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?

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11 As a partridge that [a]broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It (A)will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be (B)a fool.”

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  1. Jeremiah 17:11 Sits on eggs

14 It is [a]good for nothing,” cries the buyer;
But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

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  1. Proverbs 20:14 Lit. evil, evil

11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (A)for the sake of dishonest gain.

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