Isaiah 45:9

The Scriptures 2009

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?

Job 33:13

Why have you complained against Him? Because He does not answer all His matters?

Job 40:2

“Should a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.”

Job 9:12

Look, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Job 9:4

Wise in heart and potent of power – who has hardened himself against Him and is at peace?

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom or understanding Or counsel against יהוה.

Ecclesiastes 6:10

Whatever shall be, has already been named, and it is known that he is son of Aḏam. And he is unable to contend with Him who is mightier than he.

Isaiah 10:15

Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

Isaiah 29:16

How perverse of you! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, “He did not make me”? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, “He did not understand”?

Isaiah 45:10

“Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you bringing forth?’ Or to the woman, ‘What are you labouring over?’ ”

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to be strengthened in You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.

Jeremiah 18:6

“O house of Yisra’ĕl, am I not able to do with you as this potter?” declares יהוה. “Look, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Yisra’ĕl!

Jeremiah 36:29

and say to Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏah, ‘Thus said יהוה, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written in it that the sovereign of Baḇel is certainly coming to destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?’ ”

Jeremiah 50:24

“I have laid a snare for you, and you were captured, O Baḇel, and you yourself did not know! You have been found and also caught, because you strove against יהוה.”

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, and He does as He wishes with the host of the heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth. And there is none to strike against His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Master to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?