Isaiah 45:10
Good News Translation
Do we dare say to our parents, "Why did you make me like this?"

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you begetting?” or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”

Contemporary English Version
Children don't have the right to demand of their parents, "What have you done to make us what we are?"

New American Bible
Woe to anyone who asks a father, “What are you begetting?” or a woman, “What are you giving birth to?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Malachi 1:6 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 12:9 Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

Context
God Calls Cyrus
9Woe 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? 10Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?11Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.…
Cross References
Isaiah 45:9
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?

Isaiah 45:11
Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.

Isaiah 45:9
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