Isaiah 45:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

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

Jeremiah 18:6

‘House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? ’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Isaiah 29:16

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. How can what is made say about its maker, ‘He didn’t make me’? How can what is formed say about the one who formed it, ‘He doesn’t understand what he’s doing’?

Isaiah 10:15

Does an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift   it! It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the  Lord.

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found and captured because you pitted yourself against the  Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:22

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

Job 9:12

If he snatches something, who can stop   him? Who can ask him, ‘What are you doing? ’

Job 33:13

Why do you take   him to court for not answering anything a person asks?

Job 40:2

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God give an answer.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever exists was given its name long ago,  , and it is known what mankind is. But he is not able to contend with the one who is stronger than he is.

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to the one who says to his father, “What are you fathering? ” or to his mother, “What are you giving birth to? ” ’

Jeremiah 36:29

You are to proclaim concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, “This is what the Lord says: You have burned the scroll, asking, ‘Why have you written on it that  the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and cause it to be without people or animals? ’

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants  with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done? ’

Job 9:4

God is wise  and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?

Job 10:9

Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you. For you have hidden your face from us and made us melt because of  , our iniquity.