箴言 30:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他的話語，你不可增添；恐怕他責備你，你就表明是說謊的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 的 言 语 ， 你 不 可 加 添 ， 恐 怕 他 责 备 你 ， 你 就 显 为 说 谎 言 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹ These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh. This is his message to Ithiel and Ucal: ² "I am the most stupid person there is, and I have no understanding. ³ I have not learned to be wise, and I don't know much about God, the Holy One. ⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come back down? Who can hold the wind in his hand? Who can gather up the waters in his coat? Who has set in place the ends of the earth? What is his name or his son's name? Tell me, if you know! ⁵ "Every word of God is true. He guards those who come to him for safety. ⁶ Do not add to his words, or he will correct you and prove you are a liar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Add: Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32, Revelation 22:18, Revelation 22:19

and: Job 13:7-9, 1 Corinthians 15:15

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:14 - nothing Isaiah 29:13 - their fear Matthew 15:9 - teaching 1 Corinthians 3:12 - wood Galatians 1:9 - than

Cross-References

Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the field and found some mandrake plants and brought them to his mother Leah. But Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

Genesis 30:16
When Jacob came in from the field that night, Leah went out to meet him. She said, "You will have sexual relations with me tonight because I have paid for you with my son's mandrakes." So Jacob slept with her that night.

Genesis 30:17
Then God answered Leah's prayer, and she became pregnant again. She gave birth to a fifth son

Genesis 30:20
She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now surely Jacob will honor me, because I have given him six sons," so she named him Zebulun.

Genesis 30:32
Today let me go through all your flocks. I will take every speckled or spotted sheep, every black lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. That will be my pay.

Genesis 30:35
But that day Laban took away all the male goats that had streaks or spots, all the speckled and spotted female goats (all those that had white on them), and all the black sheep. He told his sons to watch over them.

Genesis 35:25
He had two sons by Rachel's slave girl Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.

Genesis 46:23
Dan's son was Hushim.

Deuteronomy 33:22
Moses said this about the people of Dan: "Dan is like a lion's cub, who jumps out of Bashan."

Psalms 35:24
Lord my God, defend me with your justice. Don't let them laugh at me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Add thou not unto his words,.... To the words of God; as the Jews did, by joining their oral law, or the traditions of the elders, to the written word, and preferring them before it; and as the Papists, by making their unwritten traditions, and the sense and determinations of their church, equal to the Scriptures; and as all enthusiasts do, who set up their pretended dreams, visions, revelations, and prophecies, upon a foot with the word of God, or as superior to it; whereas that is, and that only, the rule and standard of faith and practice, and is a sufficient and perfect one; see Deuteronomy 4:2;

lest he reprove thee; that is, God; either by words or by blows, by threatenings and denunciations of his wrath and displeasure; or by chastisements and corrections for such daring pride, blasphemy, and wickedness; those who add to his words, he threatens to add plagues unto them, Revelation 22:18;

and thou be found a liar; a forger, speaker, and spreader of doctrinal lies, such doctrines as are contrary to the word of truth; not being built on that, but upon human inventions, and additions to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Men 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 30:6. 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.