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19 You will say to me then, So why does he still blame us? For who can resist his will? 20 But, O man, what are you to dispute with God? Shall the work say to the workman, Why have you made me this way? 21 Does the potter not have power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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19 One of you will say to me:(A) “Then why does God still blame us?(B) For who is able to resist his will?”(C) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](F) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9