¹² Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'

⁹ Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

¹⁰ If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?

¹³ And He `is' in one `mind', And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth `it'.

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁵ and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

²⁹ And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, `It is' the same.

¹³ Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

¹¹ in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

¹⁸ so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

¹⁹ Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

²⁶ Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.