Proverbs 30:6
Do not add anything to his words, lest you be reproved and be discovered to be a liar.
Catholic Public Domain 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 fire-tested. He is a bronze shield to those who hope in him.
7Two things I have asked of you; do not deny them to me before I die.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32What I command to you, this only shall you do, for the Lord. You may neither add nor subtract anything.”
Job 13:7Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?
Revelation 22:18For I call as witnesses all listeners of the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone will have added to these, God will add upon him the afflictions 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 →