Proverbs 30:6
Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
In Context
5Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
7Two things I have asked of thee, deny me not before I die:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that shall ye observe to do. Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.
Job 13:7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Revelation 22:18I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man should add to them, God will add to him the seven plagues that are written in this book.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:2-7
The Words of Agur. 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst… Read the whole commentary →