PRO 19:27 Parallel View

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19:27 Note: We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.

Key: yellow:verbs.
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ULT My son, cease to hear instruction
 ⇔ to stray from the words of knowledge.

UST My son, if you stop listening to what people teach you,
⇔ then you will reject what you already know that people told you.

BSB  ⇔ If you cease to hear instruction, my son,
⇔ you will stray from the words of knowledge.

OEB Cease, my son, to despise instruction,
⇔ to wander away from the words of knowledge.

WEB If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
⇔ you will stray from the words of knowledge.

NET If you stop listening to instruction, my child,
 ⇔ you will stray from the words of knowledge.

LSV Cease, my son, to hear instruction—To err from sayings of knowledge.

FBV My son, stop listening to my instruction and you'll soon give up following wisdom.

T4T  ⇔ My son, if you stop learning things,
⇔ you will soon forget what you already know.

LEB • [fn] from sayings of knowledge.

?:? Literally “in order to stray”

BBE A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

MOF No MOF PRO book available

JPS 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.

DRA Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

YLT Cease, my son, to hear instruction — To err from sayings of knowledge.

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

RV Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to err from the words of knowledge.

WBS Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

KJB Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
(Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. )

BB My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.
(My son hear no more the doctrine that leadeth thee unto errours from the words of understanding.)

GNV My sonne, heare no more the instruction, that causeth to erre from ye words of knowledge.
(My son, hear no more the instruction, that causeth to erre from ye/you_all words of knowledge. )

CB My sonne, heare nomore the doctrine yt leadeth the awaye from the wordes of vnderstondinge.
(My son, hear nomore the doctrine it leadeth the away from the words of understanding.)

WYC Sone, ceesse thou not to here techyng; and knowe thou the wordis of kunnyng.
(Son, cease thou/you not to here teaching; and know thou/you the words of cunning/knowledge.)

LUT Laß ab, mein Sohn, zu hören die Zucht, die da abführet von vernünftiger Lehre!
(Laß ab, my son, to listenn the Zucht, the there abführet from vernünftiger Lehre!)

CLV Non cesses, fili, audire doctrinam, nec ignores sermones scientiæ.
(Non cesses, fili, audire doctrinam, but_not ignores sermones scientiæ. )

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

BrLXX Υἱὸς ἀπολειπόμενος φυλάξαι παιδείαν πατρὸς, μελετήσει ῥήσεις κακάς.
(Huios apoleipomenos fulaxai paideian patros, meletaʸsei ɽaʸseis kakas. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

בְּ֭נִ⁠י

son,my

See how you translated the same use of this phrase in 1:8.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / irony

חַֽדַל & לִ⁠שְׁמֹ֣עַ מוּסָ֑ר

cease & to,listening instruction

Here, Solomon is using irony. By doing so, Solomon actually means to communicate the opposite of the literal meaning of his words. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “do not cease to hear instruction”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מוּסָ֑ר & דָֽעַת

instruction & knowledge

See how you translated the abstract nouns instruction in 1:2 and knowledge in 1:4.

Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

לִ֝⁠שְׁג֗וֹת

to,stray

Here, to indicates that what follows is the result of doing what was stated in the previous clause. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate result. Alternate translation: “with the result that you stray”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לִ֝⁠שְׁג֗וֹת מֵֽ⁠אִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת

to,stray from,words knowledge

Here, Solomon refers to a person ceasing to heed the words of knowledge that he knows as if that person were wandering away from those words. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to stop accepting the words of knowledge”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

מֵֽ⁠אִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת

from,words knowledge

Here, Solomon is using the possessive form to describe words that are characterized by knowledge. If your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “from the knowledgeable words”

Note 7 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal

מֵֽ⁠אִמְרֵי

from,words

See how you translated the similar use of words in 1:23.

Parallel PRO 19:27