Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionCease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GCease, my son, from hearing correction — and so you will stray from words of knowledge.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageStop listening to instruction, my son — and see where it leads: wandering far from all wisdom.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIf you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Footnotes
This verse is deliberately ironic — the father's apparent command to "cease listening" is a *reductio ad absurdum*: the *lamed* before לִשְׁגּוֹת (*lishgoth*, "to wander/stray") is a *lamed* of result: "resulting in wandering from words of knowledge." The teacher uses irony to make the student feel the stakes viscerally. לִשְׁגּוֹת shares a root with *shegagah*, inadvertent sin (Lev. 4:2), suggesting that departure from wisdom leads to the territory of unintentional transgression. FOG preserves the ironic imperative; FOG Message makes the conditional consequence rhetorically explicit.
