14:11a If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language,

(Contemporary English Version) But if I don’t understand the language that someone is using,

But if I do not understand the language someone speaks,
-or-
But if a person doesn’t understand the language that someone else speaks,

14:11b I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

then I am ⌊like⌋ a person from another country to him, and he is ⌊like⌋ a person from another country to me.
-or-
then they are ⌊like⌋ foreigners to each other.

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