Isaiah 10:15

Verse Isaiah 10:15. No wood - "Its master."] I have here given the meaning, without attempting to keep to the expression of the original, לא עץ lo ets, "the no-wood;" that which is not wood like itself, but of a quite different and superior nature. The Hebrews have a peculiar way of joining the negative particle לא lo to a noun, to signify in a strong manner a total negation of the thing expressed by the noun.

"How hast thou given help (ללא כח lelo choach) to the no-strength?

And saved the arm (לא עז lo oz) of the no-power?

How hast, thou given counsel (ללא חכמה lelo chochmah) to the no-wisdom?"

Job 26:2.

That is, to the man totally deprived of strength, power, and wisdom.

"Ye that rejoice (ללא דבר lelo dabar) in nothing."

Amos 6:13.

That is, in your fancied strength, which is none at all, a mere nonentity.

"For I am God, (ולא איש velo ish,) and no-man;

The Holy One in the midst of thee, yet do not frequent cities."

Hosea 11:9.

"And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword (לא איש lo ish) of no-man;

And a sword of (לא אדם lo adam) no-mortal, shall devour him."

Isaiah 31:8.

"Wherefore do ye weigh out your silver (בלוא לחם belo lechem)

for the no-bread."

Isaiah 55:2.

So here לא עץ lo ets means him who is far from being an inert piece of wood, but is an animated and active being; not an instrument, but an agent.