Romans 9:20
nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form [it], Why me didst thou make thus?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'
Cross References
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 36:23Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'
Job 40:2Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
Job 40:8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?
Isaiah 29:16Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, 'He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, 'He did not understand?'
Isaiah 64:8And now, O Jehovah, thou [art] our Father, We [are] the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy 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 →