ESV Reformation Study Bible – Pr 30:6
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Pr 30:6

30:6 Do not add to his words. To add to God’s words is to sit in judgment on them and to find them wanting by human standards. This shifts the basis of knowledge and truth from God to ourselves. This pride of the creature is a mainspring of sin (Gen. 2:9 note).