Proverbs 30:6
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."

New Revised Standard Version
Do not add to his words, or else he will rebuke you, and you will be found a liar.

Contemporary English Version
Don't change what God has said! He will correct you and show that you are a liar.

New American Bible
Add nothing to his words, lest he reprimand you, and you be proved a liar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:

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Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.

Revelation 22:18,19 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. . . .

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Job 13:7-9 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him? . . .

1 Corinthians 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we have given testimony against God, that he hath raised up Christ, whom he hath not raised up, if the dead rise not again.

Context
The Words of Agur
5Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him. 6Add not any thing to his words, lest thou be reproved and found a liar:7Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.…
Cross References
Revelation 22:18
For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book.

Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book.

Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:32
What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.

Proverbs 30:7
Two things I have asked of thee, deny them not to me before I die.

Proverbs 30:5
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