World English Bible
Isaiah 45:10
“Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?”
Verse in context — Isaiah 45
Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
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?
Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?
Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and I have commanded all their army.
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