Isaiah 41:28
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 63:5 similarly describes God looking for help but finding none — reinforcing the theme of divine isolation.
Daniel 4:8 introduces Daniel, who does give the interpretation — a direct contrast to the lack of any counselor in Isaiah.
Revelation 5:3 echoes the same inability — no one in all creation can open the scroll, paralleling the lack of a counselor in Isaiah.
Daniel 2:10 shows the same lack of a human counselor who can answer — here no man can interpret the king's dream.
Daniel 2:11 adds that only the gods can reveal secrets — consistent with the absence of a human counselor in Isaiah.
Daniel 4:7 shows the same failure — Babylonian wise men cannot interpret the dream, matching the absence of a counselor.
Daniel 5:8 repeats the motif — wise men unable to interpret, echoing Isaiah's complaint of no one giving answer.