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19-20 Of course I can almost hear your retort: “If this is so, and God’s will is irresistible, why does God blame men for what they do?” But the question really is this: “Who are you, a man, to make any such reply to God?” When a craftsman makes anything he doesn’t expect it to turn round and say, ‘Why did you make me like this?’

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19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 20 But who indeed are you—a mere human being[a]—to talk back to God?[b] Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 tn Grk “O man.”
  2. Romans 9:20 tn Grk “On the contrary, O man, who are you to talk back to God?”
  3. Romans 9:20 sn A quotation from Isa 29:16; 45:9.