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?’
⛓ Read Isaiah 45 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
v.20-21 also draws on Isaiah 45:9, 'Woe to him who strives with his Maker... shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What are you making?' The 'who are you to reply against God' (antapokrinomenos) directly answers Isaiah's woe against the clay that contends with the potter.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Woe to him who strives with his Maker... shall the clay say to the potter, What are you making?' reinforces the potter-and-clay sovereignty motif behind the honor/dishonor vessels. Pairs with 29:16 as the prophetic clay backdrop.
Medium confidence