9  “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,

a pot among earthen pots!

Does the ^uclay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’

or ‘Your work has no handles’?

10  Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’

or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

11  Thus says the Lord,

the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:

“Ask me of things to come;

will you command me concerning my ^vchildren and the work of my hands?¹

12  I made the earth

and created man on it;

it was my hands that ^wstretched out the heavens,

and I commanded all their host.