John Trapp on Proverbs 21:6

Verſ. 6. The getting of treaſures by a lying tongue] As do Seducers, Sycophants, Flatterers, corrupt Judges (that ſay with ſhame Give yee) mercenary pleaders (that ſell both their tongues and ſilence, and help their Clients cauſes as the Wolf did the ſheep of his cough, by ſucking his blood) witneſſes of the poſt (that can lend an oath, as Jezabels hired Rake-hels did, and will not ſtick to ſwear (if they may bee well paid for it) that their friend or ſoe was at Rome and at Interamna both at once) falſe Chapmen, that ſay the beſt of their worſt commodities, and cheat the unwary buyer. Theſe and the like, though for a while they may thrive and ruffle, yet in the end they proſper not, but periſh with their wealth, as the Toad doth with his mouth full of earth. God blows upon their curſed hoards of evil-gotten goods, ſcatterinrg them as chaff before the wind: Deſtruction alſo dogs them at the heels, both temporal and eternal. This they are ſaid to ſeek, ſc. eventually, though not intentionally; they ſeek it, becauſe they not onely walk in the way to it, but run and flye with poſthaſte, as if they were afraid that they ſhould come too late, or that hell ſhould bee full before they got thither. Thus Balaams Aſs never carries him faſt enough after the wages of wickedneſs. Set but a wedge of gold before Achan, and Joſhuah, that could ſtop the Sun in his courſe, cannot ſtay him from fingering of it. Judas in ſelling his Maſter, what hee doth, doth quickly. But with what iſſue? What got Balaam but a ſword in his ribs? Achan, but the ſtones about his ears? Judas, but the halter about his neck? beſides a worſe thing in another world. Thus many a wretched worldling ſpins a fair thred to ſtrangle himſelf both temporally and eternally; by covetouſneſs they not onely kill others, Prov. 1.19. but deſperately drown themſelves in perdition and deſtruction, 1 Tim. 6.9. Fuge ergo, dives, ejufmodi exitum (as St. Ambroſe concludes the ſtory of Ahabs and Jezabels fearful end) ſed fugies ejuſmodi exitum ſi fugeris hujuſmodi flagitium. Fly, O rich miſer, ſuch an end. Such an end you ſhall avoid, if you carefully flye from ſuch ſinful courſes.