Romans 9:20
O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”
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In Context
19And so, you would say to me: “Then why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
Cross References
Job 16:3Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Job 36:23Who is able to investigate his ways? And who can say, “You have done iniquity,” to him?
Job 40:2Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
Isaiah 29:16This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: “You did not make me.” Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, “You do not understand.”
Isaiah 64:8And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.
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 →