Grammar is must, otherwise this is result-2:78

[Mazhar]

Be informed that, group of common people of them-Bani Iesraa'eel retains the peculiar trait of persistently not knowing/ascertaining and acquiring knowledge of the contents of the Revealed Book. They are, however, aware with regard to the Revealed Book only such wishful/hopeful fascinating hearsay/conjectural myths made popular and widespread in society. As such, they the common people, keep doing/knowing nothing except conjecturing/supposing/assuming the widespread/popular material as being from the Revealed Book.

Traditional Translations
The important error in these translations is that the predicate of the Arabic Nominal Sentence is not only missing but the Adjectival trait has been made as the predicate, which has caused the distortion in the perception and thought conveyed in the Arabic text.

Sahih International And among them are unlettered ones who do not know the Scripture except in wishful thinking, but they are only assuming.
Pickthall Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.
Yusuf Ali And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.
Shakir And there are among them illiterates who know not the Book but only lies, and they do but conjecture.
Muhammad Sarwar Some of them are illiterate and have no knowledge of the Book except for what they know from legends and fantasy. They are only relying on conjecture.
Mohsin Khan And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.
Arberry And some there are of them that are common folk not knowing the Book, but only fancies and mere conjectures.

This is an inverted nominal sentence. The normal style is that Subject comes first and is definite in nominative case. The principle of predicate is that it is indefinite. The indefinite noun is permissible to occur as Subject when it is modified by an adjective or likewise, when it is particularized from another perspective. The predicate , which can be a single word, or a complete sentence, is next in sequence. When it is an entire sentence, that sentence will have its own structure and all the rules will apply to it as well. The predicate may also be elided when the subject is followed by a prepositional or adverbial phrase reflective of and necessitating the elision of predicate.

A prepositional or adverbial phrase can never be the subject of a nominal sentence. When these two entities appear in the beginning, a place reserved for the subject, they are in fact related to the predicate .

Why this sentence is in the inverted order? The normal structuring of a nominal sentence may be inverted to achieve rhetorical benefit. There are a few situations in which inverting the structure is prohibited, and there are others in which inverting the structure actually becomes mandatory. One such mandatory situation is when the subject/topic to be talked about is purely indefinite and the predicate is a prepositional or adverbial phrase.

This Unitary Verbal Passage/Ayah begins with , the Recommencing particle. It is a discourse coordinator, that signals the speaker's identification of an upcoming unit which is coordinate in structure to prior unit. Here the discourse is the conduct of a group/Elite-upper segment-knowledgeable-scholars-literary club-clergy of Jews.

Cont
Does commonsense permits a rational person to presume that the large majority of people of a society barring a small number of scholars and clergy are illiterate, unlettered, uneducated?