Isaiah 46:10-11

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ¹  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

46:11 who summons an eagle ²  from the east,

from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.

Yes, I have decreed, ³ 

yes, I will bring it to pass;

I have formulated a plan,

yes, I will carry it out.

Job 9:13

9:13 God does not restrain his anger; ⁴ 

under him the helpers of Rahab ⁵  lie crushed. ⁶ 

Proverbs 21:30

21:30 There is no wisdom and there is no understanding,

and there is no counsel against ⁷  the Lord. ⁸ 

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁹ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ¹⁰  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

[46:10]  ¹ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

[46:11]  ² tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).

[46:11]  ³ tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”

[9:13]  ⁴ sn The meaning of the line is that God’s anger will continue until it has accomplished its purpose (23:13-14).

[9:13]  ⁵ sn “Rahab” is not to be confused with the harlot of the same name from Jericho. “Rahab” is identified with Tiamat of the Babylonian creation epic, or Leviathan of the Canaanite myths. It is also used in parallelism to the sea (26:12), or the Red Sea (Ps 74:13), and so comes to symbolize Egypt (Isa 30:7). In the Babylonian Creation Epic there is reference to the helpers of Tiamat. In the Bible the reference is only to the raging sea, which the Lord controlled at creation.

[9:13]  ⁶ tn The verb שָׁחַח (shakhakh) means “to be prostrate” or “to crouch.” Here the enemies are prostrate under the feet of God – they are crushed.

[21:30]  ⁷ tn The form לְנֶגֶד (lÿneged) means “against; over against; in opposition to.” The line indicates they cannot in reality be in opposition, for human wisdom is nothing in comparison to the wisdom of God (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 232).

[21:30]  ⁸ sn The verse uses a single sentence to state that all wisdom, understanding, and advice must be in conformity to the will of God to be successful. It states it negatively – these things cannot be in defiance of God (e.g., Job 5:12-13; Isa 40:13-14).

[4:35]  ⁹ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

[4:35]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “strikes against.”