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Isaiah 40 13 “Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?”

Job 41 11 “Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.”

Isaiah 40 12-18 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?”

Exodus 30 12 ““When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.”

ESV study bible note on Isaiah 10 7; God uses human evil for his own just purpose but he does not need humans to intend their cooperation. Events unfold through human intentions but also, more deeply, through the divine intention

Luke 22 22 “For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”” This is Jesus speaking of Judas at the Last Supper

Psalm 76 10 Men’s wicked ways are working in secret to bring about God’s decree