Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 27 Holy Bible
Cease, my son, to hear instruction `Only' to err from the words of knowledge.
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A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
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Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.
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Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
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If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.
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Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. This version fairly represents the terse original, if musar, "instruction," be taken in a bad sense, like the "profane and vain babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called," censured by St. Paul (1 Timothy 6:20). But as musar is used in a good sense throughout this book, it is better to regard the injunction as warning against listening to wise teaching with no intention of profiting by it: "Cease to hear instruction in order to err," etc.; i.e. if you are only going to continue your evil doings. You will only increase your guilt by knowing the way of righteousness perfectly, while you refuse to walk therein. The Vulgate inserts a negation, "Cease not to hear doctrine, and be not ignorant of the war, is of knowledge;" Septuagint, "A son who fails to keep the instruction of his father will meditate evil sayings." Solomon's son Rehoboam greatly needed the admonition contained in this verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err . . .--Or the passage may mean, Cease to hear instruction if you are only going to err afterwards--Make up your mind what you are intending to do hereafter, and act now accordingly; better not know the truth than learn it only to desert it. (Comp. 2Peter 2:21.)
