Proverbs 30:6

Proverbs 30:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
• New International Version (NIV)Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

Context of Proverbs 30:6

4No one has gone up to heaven and then come back. No one has held the wind in his hands. No one has tied his coat around the seas. No one has fixed the borders of the earth. If anyone has done this, tell me his name. Tell me his son's name. Tell me, if you know. 5Everything that God says is completely true. If you trust him, he will protect you like a soldier's shield. Do not add anything to what God has said. If you do that, he will warn you. He will show that you are someone who tells lies. 7God, I ask you to do two things for me. Please do them before I die: 8Do not let me ever deceive people with lies. Do not let me be too rich or too poor. Give me only as much food as I need each day.

Proverbs 30:6 word by word

אַל־תּ֥וֹסְףְּ עַל־דְּבָרָ֑יו פֶּן־יוֹכִ֖יחַ בְּךָ֣ וְנִכְזָֽבְתָּ׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Addיָסַףyâsaph · to addH3254
• thou not unto his wordsדָּבָרdâbâr · wordH1697
• lest he reproveיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• thee, and thou be found a liarכָּזַבkâzab · to lieH3576

Cross-references for Proverbs 30:6

• Deuteronomy 4:2Do not add anything to these rules. Do not remove anything from them. You must obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving to you.
• Deuteronomy 12:32Be careful to do everything that I am telling you. Do not add anything to these commands. Do not remove anything from them.
• Revelation 22:18Now John says this. I say clearly to everyone who hears the words of God's prophecy that are written in this book: If anyone adds any more words than are already in this book, God will punish them. The terrible troubles that this book describes will happen to them.
• Job 13:7You think that you can tell lies to speak on behalf of God! Your lies are not helping God.
• 1 Corinthians 15:15We would have been telling lies about God, because we told you that God raised Christ up after his death. But if dead people do not live again, that would not be true.

Commentaries on Proverbs 30:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Add not thou unto his words - You can no more increase their value by any addition, than you can that of gold by adding any other metal to it. Take care that you do not any thing that this word forbids, nor leave undone any thing that it commands: for this is adding and diminishing in Scripture phrase. Lest he reprove thee - Lest he try thy word by fire, as his has been tried; and it appear that, far from abiding the test, the fire shows thine to be…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Men are not to mingle revealed truth with their own imaginations and traditions. In speculating on the unseen, the risk of error is indefinitely great, and that error God reproves by manifesting its falsehoods.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6Unlike Agur's lack of knowledge and power, God's strength and wisdom are evident (compare Psalm 18:30). This is encouraging to Agur, as he knows God protects everyone who seeks Him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Add ... words--implying that his sole reliance was on God's all-sufficient teaching. reprove thee--or, "convict thee"--and so the falsehood will appear.Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 30:6

• Word of God

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• Agur
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• Massa
• Proverbs, the Book of
• Zoology

Commentaries on Proverbs 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings