Verse 22

For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For mitt folk er dårer; de kjenner meg ikke. De er uten forstand. De er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men vet ikke hvordan de skal gjøre godt.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de har ikke kjent meg. De er dumme barn, uten forstand. De er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men for å gjøre godt har de ingen kunnskap.

• Norsk King James

  For mitt folk er dumt, de kjenner meg ikke; de er som barn uten forstand; de er raske til å gjøre ondt, men til å gjøre godt har de ikke kunnskap.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Sannelig, folket mitt er tåpelig, de kjenner meg ikke. De er ubetenksomme barn uten forståelse; de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men vet ikke å gjøre godt.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For mitt folk er tåpelige, de kjenner meg ikke; de er tankeløse barn. De er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men å gjøre godt, det forstår de ikke.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de har ikke kjent meg; de er uforstandige barn, og de har ingen innsikt: de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men de kjenner ikke til å gjøre godt.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For mitt folk er tåpelige; de har ikke kjent til meg. De er uforstandige barn uten innsikt – de vet hvordan man gjør ondt, men å gjøre godt, det kjenner de ikke til.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de har ikke kjent meg; de er uforstandige barn, og de har ingen innsikt: de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men de kjenner ikke til å gjøre godt.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For mitt folk er dårer, de kjenner meg ikke. De er tåpelige barn, og de har ingen innsikt. De er kloke til å gjøre det onde, men å gjøre godt forstår de ikke.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de kjenner meg ikke. De er uvitende barn og forstår ikke. De er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men å gjøre godt forstår de ikke.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Sandeligen, mit Folk er daarligt, de kjende mig ikke, de ere vanvittige Børn og forstaae det ikke; de ere vise til at gjøre Ondt, men vide ikke at gjøre Godt.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de har ikke kjent meg; de er uforstandige barn, og har ingen forståelse: de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men å gjøre godt har de ingen kunnskap om.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de kjenner meg ikke; de er dumme barn, og de har ingen forståelse; de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men til å gjøre godt har de ingen kunnskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For mitt folk er tåpelige, de kjenner meg ikke, de er ukloke barn, de er ikke intelligente, kloke til å gjøre ondt, men til å gjøre godt kjenner de ikke.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For mitt folk er tåpelig, de kjenner meg ikke; de er uforstandige barn, og de har ingen forstand; de er kloke til å gjøre ondt, men til å gjøre godt har de ingen kunnskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For mitt folk er uforstandige, de har ingen kunnskap om meg; de er onde barn uten innsikt: de er kloke til å gjøre onde gjerninger, men har ingen kunnskap om å gjøre godt.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Neuertheles this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolish, and hath vterly no vnderstondinge. They are the children of foolishnes, and without eny discrecio. To do euell, they haue witt ynough: but to do well, they haue no wi?dome.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Referenced Verses

• Rom 16:19 : 19 Your obedience has been reported to all. Therefore, I rejoice about you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
• Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
• Rom 3:11 : 11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."
• John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
• Hos 4:6 : 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.
• Hos 5:4 : 4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.
• Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.
• Deut 32:28 : 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And He said, "Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’ 10 Make the hearts of this people dull, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind; otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back and be healed."
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
• Rom 1:22 : 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Jer 13:23 : 23 Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Likewise, you are unable to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.
• Isa 42:19-20 : 19 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as my dedicated one, or as blind as the servant of the LORD? 20 You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; your ears are open, but you do not listen.
• Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'
• Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
• Ps 14:1-4 : 1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one. 4 Do all the evildoers not understand? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, but they do not call upon the LORD.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's feeding trough, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.
• 1 Cor 1:20-21 : 20 Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? 21 For since in God’s wisdom the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
• Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! For the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
• 2 Sam 13:3 : 3 Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man.
• 2 Sam 16:21-23 : 21 Ahithophel answered, "Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he left to care for the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be strengthened." 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23 Now the advice Ahithophel gave in those days was like someone inquiring of God. Such was all of Ahithophel’s advice to both David and Absalom.
• Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes—the prophets; He has covered your heads—the seers. 11 The entire vision is to you like the words of a sealed book. If it is given to one who can read and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they respond, 'I cannot, for it is sealed.' 12 Or if the book is handed to someone who cannot read, and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they answer, 'I do not know how to read.'
• Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?
• Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane—they observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. 8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us,’ when the false pen of the scribes has produced lies? 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
• Matt 23:16-26 : 16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.' 17 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is obligated.' 19 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint, dill, and cumin but have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean.
• Luke 16:8 : 8 The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly, because the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.