Isaiah 29:11-12

29:11 To you this entire prophetic revelation ¹  is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read ²  and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.” 29:12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read ³  and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.” ⁴ 

Isaiah 36:3

36:3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.

¹ tn Heb “vision” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”

³ tn Heb “and if the scroll is handed to one who does not know a scroll.”

⁴ tn Heb “I do not know a scroll.”