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Summary

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?

Bible References

O man

Romans 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.
1 Corinthians 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?
James 2:20
But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

Who art

Job 33:13
Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person's words?
Job 36:23
Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?
Job 38:2
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
Job 40:2
"Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!"
Job 42:2
"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;
Matthew 20:15
Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Repliest

Job 16:3
Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Titus 2:9
Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back,
1 Timothy 6:5
and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

Shall

Isaiah 29:16
Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?
Isaiah 45:9
One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

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