⁹ How bad it will be for anyone who disputes with the very One who created him!
    After all, a human being is nothing more than one clay pot among many.
Imagine the clay saying to the potter, “What do you think you’re doing?”
    or “You don’t have the hands for this.”
¹⁰ It’s as idiotic as asking a mother or father,
    “What are you birthing or begetting?”
¹¹ So the Eternal One, who is the Holy One and Maker of Israel, says,

Eternal One: Are you really going to question Me about what will happen to My children,
        or lecture Me about what I should do with the ones I made with My own hands?
¹²     It is I who made the very ground on which you stand,
        I who shaped the human beings who walk around on it.
    I pulled the sky and the heavens taut with My own hands,
        and organized the army of stars that march across the night sky.
¹³     So it was perfectly right for me to raise up Cyrus;
        I will make his road ahead straight and level,
    So that he will rebuild My chosen place, My city Jerusalem,
        and set My exiled people free
    Without exacting a price or seeking a bribe.