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)
10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
    ‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
    ‘What have you brought to birth?’

¹¹ “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One^(G) of Israel, and its Maker:^(H)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?^(I)

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)

¹³ Why do you complain to him^(A)
    that he responds to no one’s words^[a]?^(B)

² “Will the one who contends with the Almighty^(A) correct him?^(B)
    Let him who accuses God answer him!”^(C)

³ Will your long-winded speeches never end?^(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?^(B)