20 But awho are you, O man, to answer back to God? bWill what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Job 9:12
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back?
Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should come to trial together.
Job 40:8
Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Isaiah 10:15
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
Isaiah 29:16
You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Isaiah 45:9
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’?
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