⁸ 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)

¹⁶ You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(A)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(B) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(C)
    “You know nothing”?^(D)

⁹ “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)