Yesaya 45:10

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Celakalah orang yang berkata kepada ayahnya: "Apakah yang kauperanakkan?" dan kepada ibunya: "Apakah yang kaulahirkan?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Celakalah orang yang berkata kepada ayahnya: "Apakah yang kauperanakkan?" dan kepada ibunya: "Apakah yang kaulahirkan?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Wai bagi orang yang berkata kepada bapanya demikian: Apakah kaujadikan? atau kepada ibunya: Apakah kauperanak?

Contextual Overview

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is none other, for without me there is no God: I haue prepared thee or euer thou knewest me. ⁶ Therfore they shall knowe from the rising of the sunne, vnto the goyng downe of the same, that all is nothing without me: for I am the Lorde, and there is els none. ⁷ It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges. ⁸ Ye heauens from aboue drop downe, and let the cloudes rayne righteousnesse: the earth open it selfe, let saluation and righteousnesse growe foorth, let it bryng them foorth together: I the Lorde haue created him. ⁹ Wo be vnto hym that striueth with his maker, let the potsherde striue with the potsherdes of the earth: Saieth the clay to the potter, What makest thou? or, thy worke is not perfectly done. ¹⁰ Wo be vnto hym that saieth to his father, what begettest thou? and to his mother, what bearest thou?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 27:16, Malachi 1:6, Hebrews 12:9

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 6:10 - neither Isaiah 29:16 - as the potter's Jeremiah 38:19 - mock

Cross-References

Genesis 45:2
And he wept aloude, and the Egyptians, and the house of Pharao heard.

Genesis 45:3
And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren: I am Ioseph, doth my father yet lyue? And his brethren could not aunswere him, they were so abashed at his presence.

Genesis 45:28
And Israel saide: [I haue] inough, that Ioseph my sonne is yet alyue: I will go, and see him, yer that I dye.

Exodus 8:22
And the land of Gosen where my people are, will I cause to be wonderfull in that day, so that there shal no flyes be there: wherby thou shalt know that I am the Lorde in the myddest of the earth.

Exodus 9:26
Only in the lande of Gosen where the chyldren of Israel were, was there no hayle.

John 17:24
Father, I wyll that they which thou hast geuen me, be with me where I am, that they may see my glorie which thou hast geuen me. For thou louedst me, before the foundation of the world.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, what begettest thou?.... That quarrels with him, and complains of him, because he was not of the other sex, or not so wise, or so rich, or so handsome, as others:

or to the woman; disdaining to call her mother:

what hast thou brought forth? equally as absurd and impious it was in the Jews to quarrel with Christ for his conversation with sinners, and the reception of them; or for the regeneration of such persons; or to find fault with God for the conversion of the Gentiles, and resent it, and be angry at it, as they were; see Romans 10:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wo unto him that saith unto his father ... - It is wicked and foolish for a son to complain of his father or mother in regard to his birth, or of his rank and condition of life. Probably the idea is, that if a child is by his birth placed in circumstances less advantageous than others, he would have no right to com plain of his parents, or to regard them as having acted improperly in having entered into the marriage relation. In like manner it would be not less improper, certainly, to complain of God who has brought us into existence by his own power, and who acts as a sovereign in the various allotments of our lives. The design is to rebuke the spirit of complaining against the allotments of Providence - a spirit which perhaps prevailed among the Jews, and which in fact is found everywhere among people; and to show that God, as a sovereign, has a right to dispose of his creatures in the manner which he shall judge to be best. The passage proves:

1. That man is formed by God, and that all his affairs are ordered by him as really as the work of the potter is moulded by the hands of the workman.

2. That God had a design in making man, and in ordering and arranging his circumstances in life.

3. That man is little qualified to judge of that design, and not at all qualified to pronounce it unwise, anymore than the clay could charge him that worked it into a vessel with want of wisdom; and,

4. That God is a sovereign, and does as he pleases. He has formed man as he chose, as really as the potter moulds the clay into any shape which he pleases. He has given him his rank in creation; given him such a body - strong, vigorous, and comely; or feeble, deformed, and sickly, as he pleased; he has given him such an intellect - vigorous, manly, and powerful; or weak, feeble, and timid, as he pleased; he has determined his circumstances in life - whether riches, poverty, an elevated rank, or a depressed condition, just as he saw fit; and he is a sovereign also in the dispensation of his grace - having a right to pardon whom he will; nor has man any right to complain.

This passage, however, should not be adduced to prove that God, in all respects, moulds the character and destiny of people as the potter does the clay. Regard should be had in the interpretation to the fact that God is just, and good, and wise, as well as a sovereign; and that man is himself a moral agent, and subject to the laws of moral agency which God has appointed. God does nothing wrong. He does not compel man to sin, and then condemn him for it. He does not make him a transgressor by physical power, as the potter moulds the clay, and then doom him for it to destruction. He does his pleasure according to the eternal laws of equity; and man has no right to call in question the rectitude of his sovereign dispensations.