12Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read."


In Context

9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

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 to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed."

12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read."

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 made up only of rules taught by men.

14 Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Isaiah 29:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:12And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:12and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:12And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:12and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:12and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, |Read this, please;| and he says, |I can't read.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:12And 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he said, I am not learned.