# 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"