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Woe to anyone who contends with their Maker;(A)
    a potsherd among potsherds of the earth![a]
Shall the clay say to the potter, “What are you doing?”
    or, “What you are making has no handles”?

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Footnotes

  1. 45:9 No one may challenge God’s freedom of action, exemplified here by the selection of Cyrus as his anointed.

“Woe to those who quarrel(A) with their Maker,(B)
    those who are nothing but potsherds(C)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(D)
    ‘What are you making?’(E)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?(F)

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Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done?—oracle of the Lord. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.(A)

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He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay(A) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,(B) Israel.

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20 But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) Will what is made say to its maker, “Why have you created me so?”

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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9