^28 (A)For I looked, and there was no man;
I looked among them, but there was no counselor,
Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

^5 (A)I looked, but ^(B)there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own ^(C)arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.

^16 (A)He saw that there was no man,
And ^(B)wondered that there was no intercessor;
^(C)Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

² Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed with My ^(A)rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.

^13 (A)Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
Or as His counselor has taught Him?
¹⁴ With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him,
And ^(B)taught Him in the path of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge,
And showed Him the way of understanding?