Who hath prevented me that I should [a]make an end? All under heaven is mine.

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  1. Job 41:2 Who hath taught me to accomplish my work?

Can you put a cord through its nose(A)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(B)

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13 Who hath instructed the spirit of the Lord? or was [a]his counselor, or taught him?

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  1. Isaiah 40:13 He showeth God’s infinite wisdom for the same.

13 Who can fathom the Spirit[a](A) of the Lord,
    or instruct the Lord as his counselor?(B)

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  1. Isaiah 40:13 Or mind

16 (A)[a]For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he might [b]instruct him? But we have the [c]mind of Christ.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 2:16 A reason of the former saying: for he is called spiritual, which hath learned that by the virtue of the Spirit, which Christ hath taught us. Now if that which we have learned of that Master, could be reproved of any man, he must needs be wiser than God: whereupon it followeth, that they are not only foolish, but also wicked, which think that they can devise something that is either more perfect, or that they can teach the wisdom of God a better way than they knew or taught, which undoubtedly, were endued with God’s Spirit.
  2. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Lay his head to his, and teach him what he should do.
  3. 1 Corinthians 2:16 We are endued with the Spirit of Christ, who openeth unto us those secrets, which by all other means are unsearchable, and also all truth whatsoever.

16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”[a](A)

But we have the mind of Christ.(B)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13