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?' "


In Context

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

19 One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"

20 But 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?' "

21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for 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 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:20No 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?