Vanity - Or, “a breath driven to and fro of those that are seeking death.” Another reading of the last words is: “of the snares of death” (compare 1 Timothy 6:9). Some commentators have suggested that the “vapor” or “mist” is the mirage of the desert, misleading those who follow it, and becoming a “net of death.”
Related Commentaries of Proverbs 21:6
Proverbs 21:6
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.