Romans 9:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:16 : 16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped? 10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with? 11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
  • Job 36:23 : 23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
  • Job 38:2-3 : 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge? 3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
  • Job 16:3 : 3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
  • Job 42:2-6 : 2 I see that you are able to do every thing, and to give effect to all your designs. 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out. 4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. 5 Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you. 6 For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
  • Job 40:5 : 5 Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
  • 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

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    14What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

    15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

    16So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

    17For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

    18So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

    19But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

  • Rom 9:21-22
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    21Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

    22What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

  • Isa 45:9-10
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    9Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

    10Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

  • Isa 29:16
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    16You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • Job 10:8-9
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    75%

    8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

    9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

  • Job 4:17
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    17May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Jer 18:4-6
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    74%

    4And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

    5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    6O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

  • Job 40:2
    72%

    2Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

  • Job 33:5-6
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    5If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

    6See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

  • Job 31:14-15
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    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

    15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • Job 40:8-9
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    71%

    8Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

    9Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • Job 15:13
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    13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 33:13
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    13Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

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    50Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Ezek 28:9
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    9Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

  • Isa 44:10
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    10Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • Job 7:17
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    17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • Job 9:32
    69%

    32For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • Isa 64:8
    69%

    8Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

  • Job 9:4
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    4He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

  • Job 38:3-4
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    69%

    3Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

  • Rom 2:3
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    3But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

  • Job 10:2-4
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    2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

    3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

    4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

  • Job 9:14
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    14How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

  • Job 14:3
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    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Job 9:12
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    12If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

  • Lam 3:39
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    39What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

  • Job 26:4
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    4To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • Exod 4:11
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    11And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

  • Job 21:31
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    31Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

  • Isa 46:5
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    5Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?