Isaiah 45:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Woe to him who strives with his Maker!–a worthless piece of broken pottery among other pieces equally worthless [and yet presuming to strive with his Maker]! Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What do you think you are making? or, Your work has no handles? [Rom. 9:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Common English Bible

⁹ Doom to the one who argues with the potter, as if he were just another clay pot! Does the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” or “Your work has no handles”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, "What are you making?" or, "Your work is not made by your hands?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a shard of the earthen pots. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Isaiah 45:9 Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 9:12

He snatches away; who can stop him? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what humans are and that they are not able to dispute with those who are stronger.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?” or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 18:6

Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah you shall say: Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cut off from it human beings and animals?”

Jeremiah 50:24

I set a snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized because you challenged the Lord.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?