Isaiah 40:13
New International Version
Who can fathom the Spirit of the LORD, or instruct the LORD as his counselor?

New Living Translation
Who is able to advise the Spirit of the LORD? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?

English Standard Version
Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?

Berean Standard Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

King James Bible
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him?

New King James Version
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has taught Him?

New American Standard Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

NASB 1995
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

NASB 1977
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

Legacy Standard Bible
Who has encompassed the Spirit of Yahweh, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

Amplified Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or has taught Him as His counselor?

Christian Standard Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or who gave him counsel?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or who gave Him His counsel?

American Standard Version
Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who has directed the Spirit of LORD JEHOVAH or who was Lord of Counsel to him?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

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

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

English Revised Version
Who hath directed the spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD or instructed him as his adviser?

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

International Standard Version
Who has fathomed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has taught him?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who hath meted out the spirit of the LORD? Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?

Literal Standard Version
Who has meted out the Spirit of YHWH, | And [being] His counselor, teaches Him?

Majority Standard Bible
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

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

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

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

New Heart English Bible
Who has known the mind of the LORD, or who has instructed him as his counselor?

Webster's Bible Translation
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught him?

World English Bible
Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

Young's Literal Translation
Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, being His counsellor, doth teach Him!

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Context
Here is Your God!
12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? 13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor? 14Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?…

Cross References
Romans 11:34
"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?"

1 Corinthians 2:16
"For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Isaiah 41:28
When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.


Treasury of Scripture

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?

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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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Isaiah 40
1. The promulgation of the Gospel
3. The preaching of John Baptist foretold
9. The preaching of the apostles foretold
12. The prophet, by the omnipotence of God
18. And his incomparableness
26. Comforts the people.














(13) Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord?--The term, which had been used in a lower sense in Isaiah 40:7, is here clothed as with a Divine personality, answering, as it were, to the wisdom of Proverbs 8:22-30, with which the whole passage has a striking resemblance. Eastern cosmogonies might represent Bel or Ormuzd, as calling inferior deities into counsel (Cheyne). The prophet finds no other counsellor than One who is essentially one with the Eternal.

Verse 13. - Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord? Mr. Cheyne remarks, that "in Isaiah there is a marked tendency to hypostatize the Spirit;" and the remark is undoubtedly a just one (see Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 34:16; Isaiah 48:16; Isaiah 61:1, etc.). In the present place, perhaps, the introduction of "the Spirit of the Lord" arises out of the remembrance of the part in creation which is assigned to the Spirit in Genesis 1:2. He "moved," or "brooded," upon the face of the waters, and thence began the change, or series of changes, by which order was produced out of confusion. The Spirit of the Lord "directed," or regulated, these changes; but who, Isaiah asks, "directed," or regulated, the Spirit itself? Can it be supposed that he too had a director over him? Isaiah does not seriously doubt on this point, or "leave it an open question." He makes his inquiry by way of a reductio ad absurdum. Is it not absurd to suppose that he had a director or a counsellor? He does not - here, at any rate - so far "hypostatize the Spirit" as to view him as a Person distinct from the Person of God the Father, working under him, and carrying out his will. Or being his counsellor hath taught him? "The Lord by wisdom founded the earth" (Proverbs 3:19); but he was his own counsellor. He had no adviser external to himself. The wisdom which wrought with him was his own wisdom, an essential part of the Divine essence. The evangelical prophet approaches those mysteries of God's nature which the gospel brought to light, but cannot penetrate them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Who
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

has directed
תִכֵּ֥ן (ṯik·kên)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8505: To balance, measure out, arrange, equalize, levelling

the Spirit
ר֖וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

of the LORD,
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

or who has given Him
יוֹדִיעֶֽנּוּ׃ (yō·w·ḏî·‘en·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

counsel?
עֲצָת֖וֹ (‘ă·ṣā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6098: Advice, plan, prudence


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