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“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?[a]
    Anyone who argues with God must respond.”(A)

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  1. 40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.(A)

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14 Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,
    and who taught him the path of justice?
[[Who taught him knowledge
    and showed him the way of understanding?

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34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”(A)
35 “Or who has given a gift to him,
    to receive a gift in return?”

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.(B)

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13 Why do you contend against him,
    saying, ‘He will answer none of my[a] words’?(A)

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  1. 33.13 Compare Gk: Heb his

God’s Wrath and Mercy

19 You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”(A) 20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(B) 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?(C) 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,(D) 23 and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

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11 And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,

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What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?(A)

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    he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
    Let us stand in court together.
Who are my adversaries?
    Let them confront me.(A)

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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)
10 Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?”
    or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”
11 Thus says the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel and its Maker:
Will you question me[b] about my children
    or command me concerning the work of my hands?(B)

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  1. 45.9 Cn: Heb with the potsherds or with the potters
  2. 45.11 Cn: Heb Ask me of things to come

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
    and the Almighty,[a] who has made my soul bitter,(A)

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  1. 27.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

know then that God has put me in the wrong
    and closed his net around me.(A)
Even when I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I am not answered;
    I call aloud, but there is no justice.(B)
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.(C)
He has stripped my glory from me
    and taken the crown from my head.(D)
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
    he has uprooted my hope like a tree.(E)
11 He has kindled his wrath against me
    and counts me as his adversary.(F)

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16 For then you would not[a] number my steps;
    you would not keep watch over my sin;(A)
17 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
    and you would cover over my iniquity.(B)

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  1. 14.16 Syr: Heb lacks not