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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/jit/figs-metonymy)

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/jit/figs-metaphor)

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/jit/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)