John Gill Commentary Proverbs 21:30

"There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah." — Proverbs 21:30 (ASV)

[There is] no wisdom nor understanding, nor counsel against
the Lord .
] No human schemes whatever, formed with the greatest wisdom and prudence, can ever prevail against God, or set aside or hinder the execution of any design of his; nothing that is pointed against his church, his cause, and interest, his truths and ordinances, in the issue shall succeed;

all that are found fighters against him shall not prosper, let them be men of ever so much sagacity and wisdom; though there may be ever so many devices in a man's heart, and these ever so well planned, they shall never defeat the counsel of the Lord; see (Proverbs 19:21) .

The Targum is, ``there is no wisdom as God's;'' and so the Syriac version, "as the Lord's"; there is none like his, there is none to be compared with his; there is none of any value and worth but his; all is folly in comparison of that:

or there is none "before the Lord" ^F14 ; no wisdom of the creature can stand before him, it presently vanishes and disappears.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: (hwhy dgnl) "in conspectu Jehovae", Gejerus; "coram Domino", Gussetius, p. 495.