Study it in the app“Woe to him who contends with his Former, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground! Will the clay say to the one who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?”
Woeהוֹיto him who contendsרָבwith his Former,אֶת יֹצְרוֹa potsherdחֶרֶשׂamong the potsherdsאֶת חַרְשֵׂיof the ground!אֲדָמָהWillהֲthe clayחֹמֶרsayיֹאמַרto the one who forms it,לְיֹצְרוֹ‘Whatמַהare you making?’תַּעֲשֶׂהor your work,וּפָעָלְךָ‘He has noאֵיןhands’?יָדַיִם לוֹ
woe
A cry of grief for the dead or a warning of disaster.
Where else “hoy” appearsquarrel
To fight with words.
Where else “rav” appearsmold
To mold, as God molded man from dust.
Where else “yotsr” appearsearthenware
Baked clay, earthenware; a piece of pottery.
Where else “cheres” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “adama” appearsclay
Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
Where else “chomer” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomar” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “taase” appearsdeed
What someone does; what God accomplishes.
Where else “faal” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yadayim” appearsPaul uses this image in Romans 9:20-21.
8Drip, heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bear the fruit of salvation, and let it make righteousness sprout together; I, YHWH, have created it.”
9 · This verse (above)
10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you fathering?’ or to a woman, ‘What are you giving birth to?’
