Isaiah 45:9

New Century Version

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker, ‘You have no hands.’

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?

Job 33:13

Why do you accuse God of not answering anyone?

Job 40:2

“Will the person who argues with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God answer him.”

Job 9:12

If he snatches something away, no one can stop him or say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Job 9:4

God’s wisdom is deep, and his power is great; no one can fight him without getting hurt.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, understanding, or advice that can succeed against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.

Isaiah 10:15

An ax is not better than the person who swings it. A saw is not better than the one who uses it. A stick cannot control the person who picks it up. A club cannot pick up the person!

Isaiah 29:16

You are confused. You think the clay is equal to the potter. You think that an object can tell the one who made it, “You didn’t make me.” This is like a pot telling its maker, “You don’t know anything.”

Isaiah 45:10

How terrible it will be for the child who says to his father, ‘Why are you giving me life?’ How terrible it will be for the child who says to his mother, ‘Why are you giving birth to me?’ ”

Isaiah 64:7

No one worships you or even asks you to help us. That is because you have turned away from us and have let our sins destroy us.

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

Jeremiah 18:6

“Family of Israel, can’t I do the same thing with you?” says the Lord. “You are in my hands like the clay in the potter’s hands.

Jeremiah 36:29

Also say this to Jehoiakim king of Judah: ‘This is what the Lord says: You burned up that scroll and said, “Why, Jeremiah, did you write on it ‘the king of Babylon will surely come and destroy this land and the people and animals in it’?”

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylon, I set a trap for you, and you were caught before you knew it. You fought against the Lord, so you were found and taken prisoner.

Daniel 4:35

People on earth are not truly important. God does what he wants with the powers of heaven and the people on earth. No one can stop his powerful hand or question what he does.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? We are not stronger than he is, are we?