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

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

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

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  1. Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; 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 “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,(A)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
It will not satisfy(C) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble(D) into sin.(E)

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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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19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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