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Proverbs 19:27

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27

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

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Verse 27. Not. Hebrew seems to say the reverse. Calmet.—But we may read it with an interrogation. “Wilt thou cease?” and so forth Or the instruction here meant is of a dangerous nature. Prot. “that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.” Septuagint “a son who neglects to keep the instruction of his father, shall muse on bad sayings.” Bible.

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