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Proverbs 30:6

So don't try to change what God says. If you do, he will punish you and prove that you are a liar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   God's Word;   Reverence;   Word;   Word of God;   Word, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Lying/lies;   Purity;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Baptism;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canon of the Old Testament;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agur;   Jakeh;   Lie, Lying;   Massa;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eliezer B. Nathan of Mayence;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 9;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 29;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t add to his words,or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
King James Version
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
English Standard Version
Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
New American Standard Bible
Do not add to His words Or He will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.
New Century Version
Do not add to his words, or he will correct you and prove you are a liar.
Amplified Bible
Do not add to His words, Or He will reprove you, and you will be found a liar.
World English Bible
Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Put nothing vnto his wordes, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not add to His wordsLest He reprove you, and you be proved a liar.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Contemporary English Version
Don't change what God has said! He will correct you and show that you are a liar.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't add anything to his words; or he will rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
Darby Translation
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not add to his words; lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Good News Translation
If you claim that he said something that he never said, he will reprimand you and show that you are a liar."
Lexham English Bible
Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.
Literal Translation
Do not add to His Words, that He not reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Put thou nothinge therfore vnto his wordes, lest he reproue the, and thou be founde as a lyar.
American Standard Version
Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Bible in Basic English
Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
King James Version (1611)
Adde thou not vnto his words, lest he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Put thou nothyng vnto his wordes, lest he reproue thee, and thou be founde a lyar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar.
English Revised Version
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Adde thou not ony thing to the wordis of hym, and thou be repreued, and be foundun a liere.
Update Bible Version
Don't add to his words, Or else he will reprove you, and you will be found a liar.
Webster's Bible Translation
Add thou not to his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
New English Translation
Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you, and prove you to be a liar.
New King James Version
Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
New Living Translation
Do not add to his words, or he may rebuke you and expose you as a liar.
New Life Bible
Do not add to His words, or He will speak strong words to you and prove you to be a liar.
New Revised Standard
Do not add to his words, or else he will rebuke you, and you will be found a liar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not add unto his words, lest he convict thee, and thou be found false.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:
Revised Standard Version
Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
Young's Literal Translation
Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.

Contextual Overview

1 These are the wise sayings of Agur son of Jakeh from Massa. He says, "God, I am tired, so tired. How can I keep going?" 2 I am stupid. I am not as smart as other people are. 3 I have not learned to be wise. I know nothing about the Holy One. 4 Who has ever gone up to heaven and come back down? Who gathered the winds in his hand? Who can gather up all the water in his lap? Who set the limits for the world? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Do you know? 5 You can trust this: Every word that God speaks is true. God is a safe place for those who go to him. 6 So don't try to change what God says. If you do, he will punish you and prove that 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 fields and found some special flowers. He brought them to his mother Leah. But Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's flowers."
Genesis 30:16
Jacob came in from the fields that night. Leah saw him and went out to meet him. She said, "You will sleep with me tonight. I have paid for you with my son's flowers." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
Genesis 30:17
Then God allowed Leah to become 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 accept me, because I have given him six sons." So she named this son Zebulun.
Genesis 30:32
But let me go through all your flocks today and take every lamb with spots or stripes. Let me take every black young goat and every female goat with stripes or spots. That will be my pay.
Genesis 30:35
But that day Laban hid all the male goats that had spots. And he hid all the female goats that had spots on them. He also hid all the black sheep. Laban told his sons to watch these sheep.
Genesis 35:25
His sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 46:23
Dan's son was Hushim.
Deuteronomy 33:22
Moses said this about Dan: "Dan is a lion's cub that jumps out from Bashan."
Psalms 35:24
Lord my God, judge me with your fairness. Don't let those people 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.


 
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