Proverbs 30:6
Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
Young's Literal Translation
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, A shield He [is] to those trusting in Him.
7Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:32The whole thing which I am commanding you — it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.
Job 13:7For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
Revelation 22:18'For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall 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 →