Isaiah 45:10
New International Version
Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’

New Living Translation
How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father, ‘Why was I born?’ or if it said to its mother, ‘Why did you make me this way?’”

English Standard Version
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Berean Standard Bible
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”

King James Bible
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

New King James Version
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”

New American Standard Bible
“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you fathering?’ Or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’”

NASB 1995
“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’”

NASB 1977
“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to a woman, ‘To what are you giving birth?’”

Legacy Standard Bible
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor pains?’”

Amplified Bible
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who says to a father, ‘What are you fathering?’ Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

Christian Standard Bible
Woe to the one who says to his father, ‘What are you fathering? ’ or to his mother, ‘What are you giving birth to? ’ ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
How absurd is the one who says to his father, What are you fathering?’ or to his mother, What are you giving birth to?’”

American Standard Version
Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Woe to him who says to a father: “Why do you have children?”, and to a wife: "Why did you get pregnant?"

Brenton Septuagint Translation
As though one should say to his father, What wilt thou beget me? and to his mother, What art thou bringing forth?

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

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

English Revised Version
Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, with what travailest thou?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How horrible it will be for the one who says to his father, "Why did you conceive me?" or to his mother, "Why did you go through labor pains for me?"

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

International Standard Version
Woe to the one who says to his father, 'What are you begetting?' or to a woman, 'To what are you giving birth?'!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Woe unto him that saith unto his father: 'Wherefore begettest thou?' Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?'

Literal Standard Version
Woe [to] him who is saying to a father, What do you beget? Or to a wife, What do you bring forth?”

Majority Standard Bible
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

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

NET Bible
Danger awaits one who says to his father, "What in the world are you fathering?" and to his mother, "What in the world are you bringing forth?"

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?”

New Heart English Bible
Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"

Webster's Bible Translation
Woe to him that saith to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

World English Bible
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to him who is saying to a father, 'What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, 'What dost thou bring forth?

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Context
God Calls Cyrus
9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? 10Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’” 11Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?…

Cross References
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker--one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?

Isaiah 45:11
Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: "How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?


Treasury of Scripture

Woe to him that said to his father, What beget you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?

Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Malachi 1:6
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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Isaiah 45
1. God calls Cyrus for his church's sake
5. By his omnipotence he challenges obedience
20. He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power














(10) Woe unto him . . .--The implied argument is that men accept the accident of birth without questioning father or mother as to that which lay beyond the control of either. Should they not a fortiori accept what God orders for nations and individual men?

Verse 10. - Woe unto him that saith unto his father, etc.! A change is made in the metaphor, the relationship of a father and his child being substituted for that of a potter and his clay. What would a man think of a child murmuring against his parent for not having made him stronger, handsomer, cleverer? Would not such a child be regarded as most unnatural, and as deserving to have woe denounced upon him?

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Woe
ה֛וֹי (hō·w)
Interjection
Strong's 1945: Ah! alas! ha!

to him who says
אֹמֵ֥ר (’ō·mêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to his father,
לְאָ֖ב (lə·’āḇ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

‘What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

have you begotten?’
תּוֹלִ֑יד (tō·w·lîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

or to his mother,
וּלְאִשָּׁ֖ה (ū·lə·’iš·šāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

‘What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

have you brought forth?’
תְּחִילִֽין׃ (tə·ḥî·lîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular | Paragogic nun
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert


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