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# Acquiring riches
"Gaining wealth"
# a lying tongue
The tongue is a metonym for the words a person uses the tongue to speak. Alternate translation: "speaking lies" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# a fleeting vapor
The writer likens the riches a person gains by lying to a mist that quickly goes away in the morning. Alternate translation: "a disappearing mist" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# a snare that kills
The writer speaks of the riches that a person gains by lying as if it were the bait in a hunter's trap; the word "snare" is a metonym for the bait that attracts the animal into the snare. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])