Ayub 15:8

15:8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? ¹ 

Do you limit ²  wisdom to yourself?

Roma 11:34

11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord,

or who has been his counselor? ³ 

Roma 11:1

Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final

11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

1 Korintus 2:16

2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? ⁴  But we have the mind of Christ.

[15:8]  ¹ tn The meaning of סוֹד (sod) is “confidence.” In the context the implication is “secret counsel” of the Lord God (see Jer 23:18). It is a question of confidence on the part of God, that only wisdom can know (see Prov 8:30,31). Job seemed to them to claim to have access to the mind of God.

[15:8]  ² tn In v. 4 the word meant “limit”; here it has a slightly different sense, namely, “to reserve for oneself.”

[11:34]  ³ sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.

[2:16]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Isa 40:13.