Whom 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?
14. 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, “Que l’homme est plus beste que los bestes mesmes.” “That man is more a beast than the beasts themselves.” when he ventures to lift himself up into heaven, to examine or judge by his own ability the works of God.
The scope of these verses is to show what a great and glorious being the Lord Jehovah is, who is Israel's God and Saviour. It comes in here, 1. To encourage his people that were captives in Babylon to hope in him, and to depend upon him for deliverance, though they were ever so weak and their oppressors ever so strong. 2.
Commenting on Isaiah 40:12-17
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,.... This is the same as before, only repeated in other words, the more strongly to deny that any mere creature counselled, taught, and instructed the Spirit of Christ, in the ordering and managing the works of creation: and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?