Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Can a man be of use to the Mighty God, as he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

Shall the one who contends with the Almighty find fault? He who reproves God, let him testify.

Who has directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and what man, as a counselor, has taught Him?

With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the path of justice; and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?

For who has stood in the counsel of Jehovah, and has perceived and heard His Word? Who has paid attention to His Word and heeded it?

For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I hear from My Father I make known to you.

However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He will not speak things originating from Himself, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will make known to you things to come.

All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will receive from what is Mine and make it known to you.

I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word.

For I have given to them the Words which You have given Me; and they received them, and surely know that I came forth from You; and they believe that You sent Me.

And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to its kind, and the tree producing fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,

by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),