Isaiah 40:13
Good News Translation
Can anyone tell the LORD what to do? Who can teach him or give him advice?

New Revised Standard Version
Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?

Contemporary English Version
Has anyone told the LORD what he must do or given him advice?

New American Bible
Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

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Job 21:22 Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

Job 36:22,23 Behold, God is high in his strength, and none is like him among the lawgivers. . . .

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

John 1:13 Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Ephesians 1:11 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will.

his counsellor.

Context
Here is Your God!
12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?14With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?…
Cross References
Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Isaiah 41:28
And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.

Isaiah 40:12
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