New International Version (©2011)
Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," they will answer, "I don't know how to read."New Living Translation (©2007)
When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, "We don't know how to read." English Standard Version (©2001)
And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.” New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, "Please read this." And he will say, "I cannot read." King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he will say, "I can't read." International Standard Version (©2012)
Or when they give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, 'Read this, please,' he answers, 'I don't know how to read.'" NET Bible (©2006)
Or when they hand the scroll to one who can't read and say, "Read this," he says, "I can't read." GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then you give the book to someone who can't read, saying, "Please read this." He answers, "I can't read." King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned. American King James Version
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I am not learned. American Standard Version
and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned. Douay-Rheims Bible
And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters. Darby Bible Translation
And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read. English Revised Version
and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Webster's Bible Translation
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. World English Bible
and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read." Young's Literal Translation
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.' | | Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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.
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Him that is not learned; i.e. "that cannot read writing." Even in our Lord's day the ordinary Jew was not taught to read and write. Hence the surprise of the rulers at his teaching the people out of the Law (John 7:15, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?").
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd the book is delivered to him that is not learned,.... Or that knows not a book or letters, as before, and so consequently cannot read, having never been put to school, or learned to read: saying, Read this, I pray thee; or "now" (w), at once, immediately: and he saith, I am not learned; he does not excuse himself on account of its being sealed, but on account of his want of learning; which shows the former was but an excuse. In short, the sum of it is this, that neither the learned nor unlearned, among the Jews, cared to read their Bibles, or to search the Scriptures, and the prophecies in them, concerning the Messiah, and that neither of them understood them; these things were hid from the wise and prudent, as well as from the ignorant and unlearned of the people, in common, and were only made known to a few babes and sucklings. There was great ignorance of the Scriptures in the times of Christ, to which these passages truly belong, Matthew 11:25. (w) "nunc", Pagninus, Montanus.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary12. The unlearned succeed no better than the learned, not from want of human learning, as they fancy, but from not having the teaching of God (Isa 54:13; Jer 31:34; Joh 6:45; 1Co 2:7-10; 1Jo 2:20).
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Woe to the City of David
…11And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I am not learned. 13Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: …
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.
Isaiah 29:11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, "Read this, please," they will answer, "I can't; it is sealed."
Isaiah 29:13 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
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