Romans 9:20
No, but, O man, who are you that are answering again to God? Will the thing formed say to Him who formed [it], Why did you make me thus?
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In Context
19You will say, then, to me, “Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”
Cross References
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Job 36:23Who has appointed to Him His way? And who said, You have done iniquity?
Job 40:2“Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.”
Job 40:8Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be righteous?
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?”
Isaiah 64:8And now, O YHWH, You [are] our Father, || We [are] the clay, and You [are] our Framer, || And the work of Your hand—all of us.
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 →