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Romans 9:20

On 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?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Nay but, 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?

In Context

19You will say to me, Then why does Hashem still find fault? For who has resisted His will?

21Or does the potter not have the right over the clay + 9:21 Jer 18:6 to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

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Cross References

Job 16:3Shall divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? 1 Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 1

Job 36:23Who hath enjoined Him His derech? 1 Or who can say, Thou hast done wrong? 1

Job 40:2Shall he that contendeth with Shaddai correct him? 1 The mokhiach Eloah (rebuker of G-d), let him answer it. 1

Job 40:8Wilt thou also annul My mishpat (justice)? 1 Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified? 1

Isaiah 29:16Surely you have things turned around. 1 Shall the Yotzer be esteemed as equal with the khomer (clay); 1 for shall the ma'aseh say of him that made it, 1 He made me not? 1 Or shall the thing formed say of Him that formed it, 1 He had no understanding? 1

Isaiah 64:8Be not in wrath ad me'od, Hashem, 1 neither remember avon forever; 1 behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all Thy people. 1

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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