40:13. He asks who has directed the Spirit of YHWH or as his counselor has instructed him. Obviously the answer is that no one can, that no one does, and yet how often we do try. The first question in the Hebrew is made doubly ironic by the occurrence of a repeated verb; the same verb that was chosen to describe God’s regulating of the heavens in verse 12 asks now who it is that establishes God. Can anyone have the ability to direct him, he who directed the ordering of the heavens with his thumb
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