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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’?
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Verse 9. Earthen. Lit. “Samian.” Bible.—Samos was famous for its pottery. Pliny xxxv. 12. Hebrew “Clay, disputest thou against the potters of the earth?” He shews the folly of idols, after having proved his own divinity. Calmet.—Prot. “Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth.” Bible.
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