en_tn_lite_do_not_use/pro/19/27.md

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If you cease to hear instruction

Here "listening and obeying" is spoken of as if it were "hearing." AT: "If you stop paying attention to instruction" or "If you stop obeying instruction" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

you will stray from

"you will abandon" or "you will turn your back on"

the words of knowledge

"knowledge"