Romans 9:20
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?
Cross References
Job 16:3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
Job 36:23Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him : Thou has wrought iniquity?
Job 40:2Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and do thou tell me.
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
Isaiah 29:16This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.
Isaiah 64:8And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy 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 →