Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?
Ibn Ezra
הוי Hi! Interjectio vocandi. The prophet calls unto him, that does not believe in the words of God, who foretells these future events. רב את יוצר That striveth with his maker. יוצר has here the same meaning as in Ps. 2:9; namely potter. The potsherd. The man who is like a potsherd of earthenware. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? This cannot be ; but he who fashions the clay does what he wishes. ופעלך אין ידים לו Or thy work, etc. Or shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What thou doest is not done by thy hands. I think that this phrase contains the same idea as the preceding, namely : Thy work is made without hands; thou hast no power to do it as thou likest.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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