Proverbs 19:27 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to ignore it and stray from the words of knowledge.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to ignore it and stray from the words of knowledge.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

My child, never stop learning about what is right. If you stop learning, you will soon forget what you already know.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

My son, if you stop listening to instructions, you will keep making stupid mistakes.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

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

English God's Word - GW 1995

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

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

If a son ceases to hear instruction, he wanders from words of knowledge.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

My son, if you stop listening to what I teach you, you will wander away from the words of knowledge.

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you have turned your back on knowledge.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

So listen, my child. Don’t reject correction or you will certainly wander from the ways of truth.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Stop listening to teaching that contradicts what you know is right.

English Tyndale 1537

My son heareth no more the doctrine that leadeth thee away from the words of understanding.

Proverbs 19:27 — Compare Translations