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27 My son, stop attending to correction;
    start straying from words of knowledge.[a]

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  1. 19:27 The meaning was disputed even in antiquity. The interpretation that most respects the syntax is to take it as ironic advice as in 22:6: to stop (listening) is to go (wandering).

27 Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge,
    in order that you may hear instruction.

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27 If, my child, you stop listening to discipline,
    you will wander away from words of knowledge.

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27 Stop listening, my son, to discipline,
And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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27 Stop listening to instruction, my son,(A)
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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