Isaiah 45:9
Woe [to] him who is striving with his Former || (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Does clay say to its Framer, What [are] you doing? And your work, He has no hands?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10Woe [to] him who is saying to a father, What do you beget? Or to a wife, What do you bring forth?”
Cross References
Job 9:4Wise in heart and strong in power—Who has hardened toward Him and is at peace?
Job 10:9Please remember || That You have made me as clay, || And You bring me back to dust.
Job 40:2“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
Psalms 2:2Kings of the earth station themselves, and princes have been united together, against YHWH, and against His Messiah:
Ecclesiastes 6:10What [is] that which has been? Already is its name called, and it is known that it [is] man, || And he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.
Isaiah 29:16Your perversion! Is the potter esteemed as clay, || That the work says of its maker, “He has not made me?” And the framed thing said of its framer, “He did not understand?”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 45:6-11
The Divine Dominion. ( b. c. 708.) 5 I am the Lord , and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord , and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth… Read the whole commentary →