Romans 9:20
Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?
Cross References
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 36:23Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?
Job 40:2Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.
Job 40:8Will thou even annul my judgment? Will thou condemn me, that thou may be justified?
Isaiah 29:16Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:15-25
The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the… Read the whole commentary →