Romans 9:20
But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
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- Isa 29:16 : 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”?
- Isa 45:9-9 : 9 The Lord Gives a Warning 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!” 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?” 11 This is what the LORD says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come:“How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!
- Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
- Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
- Job 36:23 : 23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?
- Job 38:2-3 : 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge? 3 Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!
- Job 40:2 : 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
- Job 16:3 : 3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 42:2-6 : 2 “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted; 3 you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know. 4 You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ 5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you. 6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!
- 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
- Titus 2:9 : 9 Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,
- Jas 2:20 : 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
- Job 40:5 : 5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
- Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
- Mic 6:8 : 8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.
- Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- Rom 2:1 : 1 The Condemnation of the Moralist Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
- 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?
- 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?
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- Rom 9:14-196 verses84%
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh:“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
19 You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”
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21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
- Isa 45:9-102 verses79%
9 The Lord Gives a Warning 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!”
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?”
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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”?
- Job 10:8-92 verses75%
8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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20 Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
- Jer 18:4-63 verses74%
4 Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.
5 Then the LORD’s message came to me,
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.’
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2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
- Job 33:5-62 verses72%
5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
6 Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
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18 To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
- Job 31:14-152 verses72%
14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
- Job 40:8-92 verses71%
8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
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23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?
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13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
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50 Did my hand not make all these things?’
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9 Will you still say,“I am a god,” before the one who kills you– though you are a man and not a god– when you are in the power of those who wound you?
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10 Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
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17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
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4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?
- Job 38:3-42 verses69%
3 Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!
4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
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3 And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?
- Job 10:2-43 verses69%
2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
4 Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
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14 The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
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3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’
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39 Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?
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4 To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
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11 The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
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31 No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.
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5 To whom can you compare and liken me? Tell me whom you think I resemble, so we can be compared!