Isaiah 45:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

Job 33:13

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

Job 40:2

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

Job 9:12

Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, ‘What doest thou?’

Job 9:4

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

Proverbs 21:30

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

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 10:15

Shall the axe vaunt itself 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!

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 45:10

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

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one that calls upon thy name, that bestirs himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast delivered us into the hand of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Jeremiah 18:6

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

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?”

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 strove against the Lord.

Daniel 4:35

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

1 Corinthians 10:22

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