Isaiah 45:9

New English Translation

One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Job 40:2

“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

Job 9:12

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Job 9:4

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

Isaiah 10:15

Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

Isaiah 29:16

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?

Isaiah 45:10

Danger awaits one who says to his father, “What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother, “What in the world are you bringing forth?”

Isaiah 64:7

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

Jeremiah 18:6

“I, the Lord, say: ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’

Jeremiah 36:29

Tell King Jehoiakim of Judah, ‘The Lord says, “You burned the scroll. You asked Jeremiah, ‘How dare you write in this scroll that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and wipe out all the people and animals on it?’”

Jeremiah 50:24

I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?