Isaiah 40:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Who comprehends the mind of the LORD, or gives him instruction as his counselor?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
  • Job 21:22 : 22 Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?
  • Job 36:22-23 : 22 Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? 23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
  • John 1:13 : 13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

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  • 14 From whom does he receive directions? Who teaches him the correct way to do things, or imparts knowledge to him, or instructs him in skillful design?

  • 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

  • 12 The Lord is Incomparable Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

  • Job 26:3-4
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    3 How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

    4 To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

  • 13 Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

  • Job 36:22-23
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    22 Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

    23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

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    36 Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

    37 Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

  • 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • 4 Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you can know!

  • 3 you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

  • 22 Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

  • 18 Yet which of them has ever stood in the LORD’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?

  • 13 “With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

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    4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5 Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

  • 18 To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

  • 11 who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

  • 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,

  • 5 This is what the true God, the LORD, says– the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

  • 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

  • 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

  • 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

  • 12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • 16 Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 2 The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him– a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD.

  • 9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • 10 Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

  • 21 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • 26 His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

  • 31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God– with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and in all kinds of work,

  • 15 He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

  • 17 This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel:“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.

  • 12 The LORD shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

  • 11 His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them,

  • 8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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    13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

    14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • 28 Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • 14 Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.

  • 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

  • 1 The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,

  • 17 He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

  • 29 This also comes from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.

  • 9 Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

  • 13 For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is his name!”

  • 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

  • 7 Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?