Romans 9:19

You will say to me, Then why does Hashem still find fault? For who has resisted His will?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

In Context

18So then, to whom Hashem wills Hashem shows chaninah (mercy, free grace), but whom Hashem wills he hardens. + 9:18 that is, makes unresponsive or more mired down in KESHI (stubbornness, hardness); Dt 9:27

20On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to answer back to G-d? VEYETZER AMAR LEYOTZRO (Can the pot say to the potter), + 9:20 Isa 29:16 Why have you made me thus?

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:6And he said, Hashem Elohei Avoteinu, art not Thou Elohim in Shomayim? And moshel (rulest) not Thou over kol mamlechot haGoyim? And in Thine yad is there not ko'ach and gevurah, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Job 9:19If I speak of ko'ach, hinei, He is mighty, 1 and if of mishpat, who can give Him a court summons? 1

Psalms 76:10When Elohim arose to mishpat, 1 to save all the meek of Eretz. 1 Selah 1

Isaiah 46:10Making known acharim (end-times things) from reshit (the beginning), 1 and mikedem (from ancient times) the things that have not yet happened, 1 saying: My etza (counsel, purpose, plan) shall stand, 1 and I will do all My pleasure; 1

Mark 14:21For the Bar Enosh + 14:21 Moshiach, Dan 7:13 14 goes just as it has been written concerning him, + 14:21 Isa 53:3; Dan 9:26; Zech 12:10 but woe to that man through whom the Bar Enosh is betrayed. [It would have been] better for him if that man had not been born.

Acts 4:27For be'emes (in truth) in this Ir (City), keneged (in opposition, against) Your Eved HaKadosh Yehoshua whom You did anoint, there were assembled both Herod and Pontius Pilate along with the Goyim and HaAm Yisroel, + 4:27 Ps 61:1; 2:1f; Isa 53; Zech 12:10

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 →

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