What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?
LXX2012
Isaiah 45:9
What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?
Parallel Translations
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?
Cross References
Isaiah 64:8Romans 9:20–21Isaiah 10:15Jeremiah 18:6Isaiah 29:16Proverbs 21:30Psalms 2:2–9Job 40:8–91 Corinthians 10:22Jeremiah 50:24Job 15:24–26Exodus 9:16–17
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