Proverbs 30:5 vs. “Every Word of God (Proverbs 30:5)”

Seeds Kids Worship (Seeds Family Worship) · checked 2026-09-05

What we checked

PassageProverbs 30:5 chapter ↗

Translation shownBSB (Berean Standard Bible)

Presents itself asquotation

Categoryadditions / omissions

AlbumThe Armor of God (Vol. 18) · 2023

Words addressed tonot addressed to God (sung about Him)

Teaching or experiencescripture set to music

Graded against the standard

Quotation criteria this song presents words as scripture, so these apply

✗Text-faithful

✓Translation named

✓Context kept

Applies to every song the Name held holy · God shown holy · true of God · the standard

✓Reverent treatment

✓ What's good

Both halves of the verse are sung, in the order Proverbs 30:5 gives them. The song adds no sentence of its own.
The streaming title carries the version: the track reads Proverbs 30:5 ESV. The product page and the video title do not.
The chord chart is free to download, and its credit line names the ESV and its 2007 text edition, not just the version.
The bridge and the kids' call-and-response part repeat words the verse already supplied. Nothing new is said about God anywhere in the song.

⚠ Cautions

One word is not the ESV's. In the shield line the song sings all, where the ESV at Proverbs 30:5 has those. Both words point at the same group.
The song's own product page names no Bible version. The ESV is named on the album page, in the song list, and on the chord chart instead.
The song sets verse 5 only. Verse 6 finishes Agur's point and tells the reader not to add to God's words.

Verse Proof

Proverbs 30:5

The text in BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.”

Proverbs 30 opens under a new name. The chapter is headed as the words of Agur son of Jakeh, not Solomon. Agur begins by saying he is worn out, that he is the most ignorant of men, and that he has not learned wisdom (30:2-3). Then he asks a run of questions nobody can answer. Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his hands? Who has set all the ends of the earth (30:4)? Verse 5 is his answer to his own questions. He cannot supply wisdom himself, so he points at the word of God, which is flawless, and at God, who shields the people who hide in Him. Verse 6 finishes the thought and tells the reader not to add to God's words.

WHAT THE SONG SINGS — Proverbs 30:5, both halves, ESV wording, with one word changed in the second half

The song is one Bible verse, split into two parts and set for young children. The chorus takes the first half of Proverbs 30:5, the line about God's word being true, and doubles its opening phrase inside each sung line. The verse section takes the second half, the shield line, and breaks it up with its closing phrase repeated. A bridge chants the phrase "every word" over and over, with a call-and-response part for the kids to sing back, then lands on the chorus line one more time. Every phrase in the song comes from the verse, apart from one word covered below.

Both halves of the verse are here, in the order the verse gives them, and the version behind them is easy to identify. The song's verb for what God's word does is the ESV's verb. The BSB and WEB quoted above say the word is flawless, and the KJV says it is pure. Seeds names the ESV on the album page, in its own song list, and in the streaming title of the track. One word in the song is not the ESV's. In the shield line, the song sings all where the ESV at Proverbs 30:5 has those. The publisher's own free chord chart, which is the printed record of the lyric, prints all. The change does not move the verse. All and those point at the same group here. What the change does is break the match with the named text by exactly one word.

✎ Departs from the text: Both halves of Proverbs 30:5 are sung in the ESV's wording, in the verse's order, and the ESV is named in the song's own streaming title. One word differs. The ESV has those in the shield line. The song sings all.

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Seeds names the ESV down to its text edition, which is exactly why one changed word shows up.

Why it matters

Seeds tells you which Bible it is using, and it tells you more than once. The album page says ESV, the song list says ESV, and the free chord chart names the ESV down to its 2007 text edition. That is a high standard to set. It is also the standard that makes a single changed word findable, because a song that named no version could never be checked this closely.

Is it safe to dwell on?

Sung on repeat, this song fixes your attention on God.

What a child repeats here is a statement about God, not about themselves. The chorus plants that God's word is true. The verse plants that God shelters the people who run to Him for cover. The bridge drills the two words "every word", which is the part of the verse that covers the most ground: not some of what God says, all of it. Sung on a loop, this leaves a child holding two things about God and nothing about their own performance.

Helpful comparison

Which version is being sung can be settled from the wording alone. The chorus verb is the ESV's. The BSB and WEB say the word of God is flawless, the KJV says it is pure, and the song says neither. That agrees with the label Seeds prints in three places.

The shield half does not agree. The chord chart prints all, where the ESV reads those. The ESV published at esv.org reads those. We could not check the 2007 text edition the chord chart names, because no edition-specific text is published.

This entry is filed under additions and omissions because one of the verse's words is missing and another stands in its place. The tier is departs, because the song presents itself as the verse in a named version and one word is not that version's. Keep the size of it in view. Both halves are present, in order, saying what the verse says, and the swapped word points at the same people. That is a much smaller thing than a song that presents the verse and does not deliver it at all.

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