Romans 9:20
Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?
Cross References
Job 16:3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 36:23Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
Job 40:2Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Job 40:8Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?
Isaiah 29:16[Oh] your perverseness! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
Isaiah 64:8And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are 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 →