Proverbs 30:6
Do not add to His words, lest He reason with you, || And you have been found false.
Literal Standard 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 saying of God [is] tried, || He [is] a shield to those trusting in Him.
7Two things I have asked from You, || Do not withhold from me before I die.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32The whole thing which I am commanding you, you observe to do it; you do not add to it, nor diminish from it.”
Job 13:7Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?
Revelation 22:18For I testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if anyone may add to these, God will add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,
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 →