Isaiah 29:12
Isaiah 29:11-12 The Message (MSG)
What you’ve been shown here is somewhat like a letter in a sealed envelope. If you give it to someone who can read and tell her, “Read this,” she’ll say, “I can’t. The envelope is sealed.” And if you give it to someone who can’t read and tell him, “Read this,” he’ll say, “I can’t read.” * * *
Isaiah 29:12 King James Version (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.
Isaiah 29:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”
Isaiah 29:12 New Century Version (NCV)
Or you may give the book to someone who cannot read and tell him to read it. But he will say, “I don’t know how to read.”
Isaiah 29:12 American Standard Version (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.
Isaiah 29:12 New International Version (NIV)
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.”
Isaiah 29:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.” And he says, “I am not literate.”
Isaiah 29:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Then the book will be given to the one who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”
Isaiah 29:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.”