unfoldingWord_en_tn/pro/19/27.md

If you cease to hear instruction

Here "listening and obeying" is spoken of as if it were "hearing." Alternate translation: "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"