Proverbs 19:27
My son, if you stop learning things, you will soon forget what you already know.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1“Possibly there will be people among you who say that they are prophets. They may say that they are able to interpret the meaning of dreams or perform various kinds of miracles [DOU].
1 Kings 22:22Yahweh asked him, ‘How will you do it?’ The spirit replied, ‘I will go and inspire all of Ahab’s prophets to tell lies.’ Yahweh said, ‘You will be successful; go and do it!’
Proverbs 14:7Stay away from foolish people, because they will not be able to teach you anything useful.
Matthew 16:6Then Jesus said to us, “Beware that you do not accept the yeast [MET] that the Pharisees and Sadducees distribute.”
Mark 4:24Then he said to them, “Consider carefully what you hear me say to you, for God will let you understand to the same degree that you consider what I say. He will let you understand even more than that.
John 10:5But they will never follow a stranger. Instead, they will run away from him, because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:27
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him… Read the whole commentary →