Proverbs 30 · Verse 6

Proverbs 30:6

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Proverbs 30:6, King James Version

Proverbs 30:6 in other translations

BSBDo not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
WEBDon’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
ASVAdd thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
YLTAdd not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
DARBYAdd thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
BBEMake no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.
WebsterAdd thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

What does Proverbs 30:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Add 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 reprobate silver; and so thou be found a falsifier of God's word, and a liar. How amply has this been fulfilled in the case of the Romish Church! It has added all the gross stuff in the Apocrypha, besides innumerable legends and traditions, to the word of God! They have been tried by the refiner's fire. And this Church has been reproved, and found to be a liar, in attempting to filiate on the most holy God spurious writings discreditable to his nature.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 30:1-6

Agur speaks of himself as wanting a righteousness, and having done very foolishly. And it becomes us all to have low thoughts of ourselves. He speaks of himself as wanting revelation to guide him in the ways of truth and wisdom. The more enlightened people are, the more they lament their ignorance; the more they pray for clearer, still clearer discoveries of God, and his rich grace in Christ Jesus. In ver.#(4)…

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Proverbs 30:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַל\־'al-may notH408
תּ֥וֹסְףְּTospyou addH3254
עַל\־'al-toH5921
דְּבָרָ֑יוde.va.Ravwords hisH1697
פֶּן\־pen-lestH6435
יוֹכִ֖יחַyo.Khi.achhe should rebukeH3198
בְּךָ֣be.Kha<in> you
וְנִכְזָֽבְתָּ\׃\ \פve.nikh.Za.ve.taand you will be proved a liarH3576

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 30:6

  • Deuteronomy 12:32

    What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

  • Deuteronomy 4:2

    Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

  • Revelation 22:18-19

    For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

  • Job 13:7-9

    Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

  • 1 Corinthians 15:15

    Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Add.
De 4:2; 12:32; Re 22:18,19
and.
Job 13:7-9; 1Co 15:15

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Context

  • Proverbs 30:5

    Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

  • Proverbs 30:6

    Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

  • Proverbs 30:7

    Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

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Proverbs 30:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No añadas á sus palabras, porque no te reprenda, y seas hallado mentiroso.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		N’ajoute pas à ses paroles, de peur qu’il ne te reprenne, et que tu ne sois trouvé menteur.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Tue nichts zu seinen Worten hinzu, damit er dich nicht überführe und du als Lügner erfunden werdest.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ne addas quidquam verbis illius, et arguaris, inveniarisque mendax.