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Don`t you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

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Guard God's Word from Additions

Commentators unanimously warn against adding to God's revealed Word. This includes elevating human traditions, personal revelations, or philosophical speculations to the same level as Scripture. Scholars like John Gill point to historical examples, such as Jewish oral law or unwritten church traditions, as precisely what this verse prohibits, emphasizing that God's Word alone is the sufficient standard.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Proverbs 30:6

18th Century

Theologian

People are not to mingle revealed truth with their own imaginations and traditions. In speculating on the unseen, the risk of error is indefinitely…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Proverbs 30:6

19th Century

Bishop

Lest he reprove you.— Or, convict you of your falsehood.

John Gill

John Gill

On Proverbs 30:6

17th Century

Pastor

Add you not to his words To the words of God; as the Jews did, by joining their oral law, or the traditions of the elders…

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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Proverbs 30:1–6

17th Century

Minister

Agur speaks of himself as lacking righteousness and having acted very foolishly. And it is fitting for us all to have humble thoughts of ourselves.…