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Woe to those who strive with their Maker,
    earthen vessels with the potter![a]
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
    or “Your work has no handles”?(A)

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  1. 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters

“Woe to those who quarrel(A) with their Maker,(B)
    those who are nothing but potsherds(C)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(D)
    ‘What are you making?’(E)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?(F)

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Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
    we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    we are all the work of your hand.(A)

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.

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So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.

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The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him.

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But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

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13 Like clay in the hand of the potter,
    to be molded as he pleases,
so are humans in the hand of their Maker,
    to be given whatever he decides.(A)

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'Sirach 33:13' not found for the version: New International Version.

21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?(A)

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

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