Isaiah 45:9

English Standard Version 2016

“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

But now, 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

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Isaiah 29:16

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

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Proverbs 21:30

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

Jeremiah 50:24

I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Job 33:13

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

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning Jehoiakim king 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 man and beast?”

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.