Ésaïe 29:12

Louis Segond

Ou comme un livre que l'on donne A un homme qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: Lis donc cela! Et qui répond: Je ne sais pas lire.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Puis si on le donnait � quelqu'un qui ne f�t point homme de lettres, en lui disant; nous te prions, lis ceci; il r�pondrait; je ne sais point lire.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ou qu'on donnerait � un homme ne sachant pas lire, en lui disant: Lis ceci! et qui r�pondrait: Je ne sais pas lire.

Darby's French Translation
et on donne le livre � celui qui ne sait pas lire, en disant: Lis ceci, je te prie; et il dit: Je ne sais pas lire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am not: Isaiah 29:18, Isaiah 28:12, Isaiah 28:13, Jeremiah 5:4, Hosea 4:6, John 7:15, John 7:16

Reciprocal: Luke 7:32 - are Luke 14:18 - all 1 Corinthians 14:16 - unlearned Revelation 5:2 - Who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And 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 נא "nunc", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the book is delivered ... - That is, they are just as ignorant of the true nature and meaning of the revelations of God as a man is of the contents of a book who is utterly unable to read.