“Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?”
The extension—'Woe to anyone who says to a father, "What are you begetting?" or to a woman, "With what are you in labor?"'—extends the potter metaphor to parent-child relationships. The rhetorical questions suggest that no child questions the parent's role in birth; similarly, no creature should question God's creative purposes. The use of both male and female parent imagery suggests comprehensive parental authority. This verse establishes that God's purposes cannot be legitimately questioned.
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