King James Version
Isaiah 29:15 in the King James Version says “Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who see...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?”
Isaiah 29:15 · KJV
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. proceed: Heb. add
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“unto them that seek deep”
H6009to be (causatively, make) deep (literally or figuratively)
“from the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and their works”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“Who seeth”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“us and who knoweth”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
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