Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
The unreadable scroll also defeats the illiterate, who say they cannot read.
This verse shows blindness reaching every level of the people.
1Woe to you, O Ariel, 2And I will constrain Ariel, 3I will camp in a circle around you; 4You will be brought low, 5But your many foes will be like fine dust, 6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts 7All the many nations 8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, 9Stop and be astonished; 10For the LORD has poured out on you 11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.” 12Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.” 13Therefore the Lord said: 14Therefore I will again confound these people 15Woe to those who dig deep 16You have turned things upside down,