Proverbs 19:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 - for instance, "the instruction" or discipline which heretics and seducers offer, but which is no instruction. Thus, in Proverbs 16:22, "the instruction of fools" is stigmatized.

Proverbs 19:27

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