20No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?


In Context

17 For the scripture said to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

19 You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

20 No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?

22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Romans 9:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:20Nay 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:20Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:20No, 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?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, |Why did you make me like this?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:20nay, 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?