Proverbs 30:6 (BSB)

Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:1-6: 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 (Pro 30:3), "I have not learned wisdom myself, but have...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:6: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:6: 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.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 30:5-6: Pro 30:5-6 5 Every word of Eloah is pure; A shield is He for those who hide themselves in Him. 6 Add thou not to His words, Lest He convict thee and thou becomest a liar. Although the tetrastich is an independent proverb, yet it is connected to the foregoing Neûm [utterance, Pro 30:1]. The more limited a man is in his knowledge of God - viz.