Isa 40:13, Rom 11:34 | JFB | STEP | 13. Quoted in . The Hebrew here for "directed" is the same as in 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 (so ), "weigh," "ponder." "Direct," as in English Version, answers, however, better to "taught" in the parallel clause.

Isaiah 40:13

13. Quoted in Ro 11:34; 1Co 2:16. The Hebrew here for "directed" is the same as in Isa 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 Isa 40:12 (so Pr 16:2; 21:2), "weigh," "ponder." "Direct," as in English Version, answers, however, better to "taught" in the parallel clause.

Romans 11:34

34, 35. For who hath known the mind of the Lord?—See Job 15:8; Jer 23:18.

or who hath been his counsellor—See Isa 40:13, 14.