Isaiah 45:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you moulded me like a piece of clay. So don't turn me back into dust once again.

Job 33:13

So why do you challenge God to answer you?

Job 9:12

And if he grabs something, who can stop him or raise a question?

Job 9:4

God is wise and powerful— who could possibly oppose him and win?

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Everything that happens was decided long ago. We humans know what we are like, and we can't argue with God, because he is too strong for us.

Isaiah 10:15

King of Assyria, can an axe or a saw overpower the one who uses it? Can a wooden pole lift whoever holds it?

Isaiah 29:16

You have it all backwards. A clay dish doesn't say to the potter, “You didn't make me. You don't even know how.”

Isaiah 45:10

Children don't have the right to demand of their parents, “What have you done to make us what we are?”

Isaiah 64:7

No one worships in your name or remains faithful. You have turned your back on us and let our sins melt us away.

Isaiah 64:8

You, LORD, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who moulded us.

Jeremiah 18:6

People of Israel, I, the LORD, have power over you, just as a potter has power over clay.

Jeremiah 36:29

Then he told me to say to King Jehoiakim: Not only did you burn Jeremiah's scroll, you had the nerve to ask why he had written that the king of Babylonia would attack and ruin the land, killing all the people and even the animals.

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylonia challenged me, the LORD God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

Daniel 4:35

To him the nations are far less than nothing; God controls the stars in the sky and everyone on this earth. When God does something, we cannot change it or even ask why.”

1 Corinthians 10:22

We would make the Lord jealous if we did that. And we are not stronger than the Lord.