Isaiah 40:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

Isaiah 40:13 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Job 21:22
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job 36:22-23
Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? …
Luke 10:22
All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

The scope of these verses is to show what a great and glorious being the Lord Jehovah is, who is Israel’s God and Saviour. It comes in here, 1. To encourage his people that were captives in Babylon to hope in him, and to depend upon him for deliverance, though they were ever so weak and their oppressors ever so strong. 2. To engage them to cleave to him, and not to turn aside after other gods; for…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Quoted in Ro 11:34; 1Co 2:16. The Hebrew here for “directed” is the same as in Is 40:12 for “meted out”; thus the sense is, “Jehovah measures out heaven with His span”; but who can measure Him? that is, Who can search out His Spirit (mind) wherewith He searches out and accurately adjusts all things? Maurer rightly takes the Hebrew in the same sense as in Is 40:12 (so Pr 16:2; 21:2), “weigh,” “…