Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19Hence thou wilt say to me, Why then doth he still find fault? for who resisteth his will?
Cross References
Job 16:3Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?
Job 36:23Who hath prescribed to him his way? Or who can say to him, “Thou hast done wrong”?
Job 40:2Will the censurer of the Almighty contend with him? Will the reprover of God answer?
Job 40:8Wilt thou even disannul my right? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous?
Isaiah 29:16Alas, your perverseness! Is the potter to be esteemed as the clay, That the work should say of its maker, He made me not? And the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
Isaiah 64:8But now, O Jehovah, thou art our father; We are the clay, and thou hast formed us; We are all of us the work 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 →