19^* You will say to me then, “Why [then] does he still find fault? For who can oppose his will?”^q 20But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God?^r Will what is made say to its maker, “Why have you created me so?” 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for an ignoble one? 22What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction?^s 23This was to make known the riches of his glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously for glory,