Romans 9:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:16 : 16 Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'
  • Isa 45:9-9 : 9 Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?' 10 Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth? 11 Thus said Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel, and his Former: Ask Me of the things coming concerning My sons, Yea, concerning the work of My hands, ye command Me.'
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?
  • Job 36:23 : 23 Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
  • Job 38:2-3 : 2 Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge? 3 Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
  • Job 42:2-6 : 2 Thou hast known that `for' all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is `any' device: 3 `Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not. 4 `Hear, I pray thee, and I -- I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.' 5 By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee. 6 Therefore do I loathe `it', And I have repented on dust and ashes.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
  • Titus 2:9 : 9 Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,
  • Jas 2:20 : 20 And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?
  • Job 40:5 : 5 Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man -- every one who is judging -- for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,
  • 1 Cor 1:20 : 20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1 Cor 7:16 : 16 for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

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