Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker--one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'? Cross References Romans 9:20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, "Why did You make me like this?" Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? 1 Corinthians 10:22 Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? Job 9:12 If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, 'What are You doing?' Job 15:25 For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty, Job 33:13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks? Job 40:2 "Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer." Job 40:8 Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself? Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God's? Can you thunder with a voice like His? Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD. Ecclesiastes 6:10 Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he. Isaiah 10:15 Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood! Isaiah 29:16 You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pottery say of the potter, "He has no understanding"? Isaiah 45:10 Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?' or to his mother, 'What have you brought forth?'" Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. Jeremiah 18:6 "O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 36:29 You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, 'Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?' Jeremiah 50:24 I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD. Daniel 4:35 All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, 'What have You done?'" Treasury of Scripture Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands? unto him Isaiah 64:8 Exodus 9:16,17 Job 15:24-26 shall the clay Isaiah 10:15 Isaiah 29:16 Jeremiah 18:6 |