Isaiah 45:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

Cross References

Job 10:9

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 33:13

Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

Job 40:2

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Job 9:12

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Proverbs 21:30

Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Isaiah 29:16

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

Isaiah 45:10

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 18:6

O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

Jeremiah 36:29

And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?

Jeremiah 50:24

I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

Daniel 4:35

And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?