Catholic Public Domain Version
"And so, you would say to me: “Then why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” "
— Romans 9:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”
“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? ”
“You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"”
“You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?””
“Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?”
“But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?”
“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”
Therefore, it is not based on those who choose, nor on those who excel, but on God who takes pity.
For Scripture says to the Pharaoh: “I have raised you up for this purpose, so that I may reveal my power by you, and so that my name may be announced to all the earth.”
Therefore, he takes pity on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
And so, you would say to me: “Then why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”
And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace?
What if God, wanting to reveal his wrath and to make his power known, endured, with much patience, vessels deserving wrath, fit to be destroyed,