17. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this same purpose I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in all the earth.”
18. So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
19. Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”
20. But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
21. Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?