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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.

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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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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