Matthew Henry · Verse 27
It is the wisdom of young men to dread hearing such talk as puts loose and evil principles into the mind.
Proverbs 19:27
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
BSB
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
KJV
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
ASV
Cease, my son, to hear instruction [Only] to err from the words of knowledge.
BBE
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
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