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God Needs No Advisor
Commentators unanimously affirm that this verse, through a series of rhetorical questions, declares God's absolute and self-sufficient wisdom. He required no counsel or instruction from any created being—human or angelic—to design the universe or establish justice. His knowledge and understanding are infinite and entirely His own.
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Isaiah
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 40:14
18th Century
Theologian
With whom did he take counsel - The sentiment of the former verse is repeated here, probably to make it more emphatic.
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 40:14
19th Century
Bishop
Counsel ... judgment. —The cluster of words belonging to the sapiential vocabulary of the Book of Proverbs should be noted as para…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 40:12–14
19th Century
Preacher
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure…
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John Calvin
On Isaiah 40:14
16th Century
Theologian
From whom took he counsel? The Prophet expresses the same thing in many ways, that we may know that nothing is more foolish than man, when…
John Gill
On Isaiah 40:14
17th Century
Pastor
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him t…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 40:12–17
17th Century
Minister
All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gav…