Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Add thou not Do not mix with the pure silver of His words the dross of human speculations. "Noli investigare res quæ mentem humanam transcendunt (Pro 30:30), ut doctrinam divinitus patefactam inde…
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