Proverbs 19:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

New Living Translation
If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge.

English Standard Version
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Berean Study Bible
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

New American Standard Bible
Stop listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

NASB 1995
Cease listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

NASB 1977
Cease listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Amplified Bible
Cease listening, my son, to instruction and discipline And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Christian Standard Bible
If you stop listening to correction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you stop listening to correction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
If you stop learning, you will forget what you already know.

Good News Translation
My child, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

International Standard Version
My son, if you stop listening to instruction, you will stray from the principles of knowledge.

NET Bible
If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

New King James Version
Cease listening to instruction, my son, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

King James 2000 Bible
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to stray from the words of knowledge.

New Heart English Bible
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

World English Bible
If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

American King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

American Standard Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.

A Faithful Version
My son, when you cease to hear instruction, you only go astray from the words of knowledge.

Darby Bible Translation
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.

English Revised Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to err from the words of knowledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My sonne, heare no more the instruction, that causeth to erre from ye words of knowledge.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My sonne, heare nomore the doctrine yt leadeth the awaye from the wordes of vnderstondinge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.

Young's Literal Translation
Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

Smith's Literal Translation
Cease, my son, to hear instructions for erring from the words of knowledge.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Stop, my son, and hear instruction, and do not forget the speech of knowledge.

Lamsa Bible
Wait, my son, and hear the instruction, and do not forget the words of knowledge.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction That causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs.
















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