Isaiah 29:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And when the book is given to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you, he says, I cannot read.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² And when the scroll is given to one who can’t read, saying, “Read this,” that one will say, “I can’t read.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But if the book is given to someone who does not know how to read, and it is said to him, "Read," then he will respond, "I do not know how to read."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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.

Isaiah 29:12 Cross References

Isaiah 29:11

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Isaiah 29:18

In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.