Catholic Public Domain Version
"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?” "
— Romans 9:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus? ”
“But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"”
“But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?””
“O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?”
“But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?”
“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
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,
so that he might reveal the wealth of his glory, within these vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?