Proverbs 30:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Proverbs 30:6 —

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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: …
Job 13:7-9
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for 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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and observations of others, made abstracts of the writings of others, which some think is the reason why he says (Prov. 30:3), “ I have not learned wisdom myself, but have been a scribe, or amanuensis, to othe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

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.