Isaiah 29:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Then you give the book to someone who can't read, saying, "Please read this." He answers, "I can't read."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

ASV:

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.

BBE:

And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

DBY:

And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.

ERV:

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

JPS:

and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'

WBS:

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

WEB:

and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."

YLT:

And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, 'Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, 'I have not known books.'

Isaiah 29:12 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 29:11 The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

Isaiah 29:13 Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

29:12 Of all - Of all, your prophets. As a book - In which no man can read, while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being made in the form of rolls. Delivered - Unsealed and opened.

MHC:

29:9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of learning. The Bible is a sealed book to every man, learned or unlearned, till he begins to study it with a simple heart and a teachable spirit, that he may thence learn the truth and the will of God. To worship God, is to approach him. And if the heart be full of his love and fear, out of the abundance of it the mouth will speak; but there are many whose religion is lip-labour only. When they pretend to be speaking to God, they are thinking of a thousand foolish things. They worship the God of Israel according to their own devices. Numbers are only formal in worship. And their religion is only to comply with custom, and to serve their own interest. But the wanderings of mind, and defects in devotion, which are the believer's burden, are very different from the withdrawing of the heart from God, so severely blamed. And those who make religion no more than a pretence, to serve a turn, deceive themselves. And as those that quarrel with God, so those that think to conceal themselves from him, in effect charge him with folly. But all their perverse conduct shall be entirely done away.

CONC:

Book Books Can't Clear Delivered Educated Illiterate Learned Learning Please Saying Says Scroll Someone Writing

Book Books Delivered Educated Illiterate Learned Please Read Scroll Someone Writing

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