For I beheld, Heb. And I beheld; I looked about me to see if I could find any man of them that could certainly and of themselves foretell such future events. No man; not any, to wit, of the idols; for the word man is sometimes used by the Hebrews of brute creatures, and even of lifeless things, as Isaiah 34:15, Isaiah 40:26, and elsewhere. There was no counsellor; though these idols were oft consulted, and by the help of the devil did sometimes deliver oracles, yet none of them were able to give any solid and certain advice concerning future things. That, when I asked of them, could answer a word; when I tried their divinity by this character, they had nothing to say for themselves.
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Isaiah 41:28
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answerj a word.