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Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 45:9 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયશાયા ૪૫:૯
જે કોઈ પોતાના કર્તાની સામે દલીલ કરે છે તેને અફસોસ! તે ભૂમિમાં માટીના ઠીકરામાંનું ઠીકરું જ છે! શું માટી કુંભારને પૂછશે કે, ‘તું શું કરે છે?’ અથવા ‘તું જે બનાવી રહ્યો હતો તે કહેશે કે - તારા હાથ નથી?’
हिन्दीयशायाह ४५:९
“हाय उस पर जो अपने रचनेवाले से झगड़ता है! वह तो मिट्टी के ठीकरों में से एक ठीकरा ही है! क्या मिट्टी कुम्हार से कहेगी, ‘तू यह क्या करता है?’ क्या कारीगर का बनाया हुआ कार्य उसके विषय कहेगा, ‘उसके हाथ नहीं है’? (रोम. 9:20,21)

In context

7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

11The LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

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