“Qui congregat thesauros lingua mendacii vanus et excors est, et impingetur ad laqueos mortis.”
“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.”
“Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.”
“Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.”
“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.”
Death. Their injustice shall be punished.
See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying (v. 6) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all men. 2. The cause of injustice. Men refuse to do judgment; they will not render to all their due, but withhold it, and omissions make way for commissions; they come at length to robbery itself. Those that refuse to do justice will choose to do wrong. 3. The effects of injustice; it will return upon the sinner's own head. The robbery of the wicked will terrify them (so some); their consciences will be filled with horror and amazement, will cut them, will saw them asunder (so others); it will destroy them here and for ever, therefore he had said (v. 6), They seek death.