Isaiah 45:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Woe to anyone who contends with their Maker; a potsherd among potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What are you doing?” or, “What you are making has no handles”?

Cross References

Job 10:9

Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?

Job 33:13

Why, then, do you make complaint against him that he gives no reply to their words?

Job 40:2

Will one who argues with the Almighty be corrected? Let him who would instruct God give answer!

Job 9:12

Should he seize me forcibly, who can resist? Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained whole?

Proverbs 21:30

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

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever is, was long ago given its name, and human nature is known; mortals cannot contend in judgment with One who is stronger.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the ax boast against the one who hews with it? Will the saw exalt itself above the one who wields it? As if a rod could sway the one who lifts it, or a staff could lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 29:16

Your perversity is as though the potter were taken to be the clay: As though what is made should say of its maker, “He did not make me!” Or the vessel should say of the potter, “He does not understand.”

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to anyone who asks a father, “What are you begetting?” or a woman, “What are you giving birth to?”

Isaiah 64:7

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

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Jeremiah 18:6

Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done?—oracle of the Lord. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Jeremiah 36:29

And against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, say this: Thus says the Lord: You are the one who burned that scroll, saying, “Why did you write on it: Babylon’s king shall surely come and ravage this land, emptying it of every living thing”?

Jeremiah 50:24

You ensnared yourself and were caught, Babylon, before you knew it! You were discovered and seized, because you challenged the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.