הַ֨פְכְּכֶ֔ם אִם־כְּחֹ֥מֶר הַיֹּצֵ֖ר יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑ב כִּֽי־יֹאמַ֨ר מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לְעֹשֵׂ֙הוּ֙ לֹ֣א עָשָׂ֔נִי וְיֵ֛צֶר אָמַ֥ר לְיוֹצְר֖וֹ לֹ֥א הֵבִֽין׃
Ang inyong kalikuan! Hindi ba ito'y itinuturing na tulad ng putik sa kamay ng magpapalayok? Masasabi ba ng ginawa tungkol sa gumawa sa kanya, “Hindi niya ako ginawa”? At sasabihin ba ng hinubog tungkol sa humubog sa kanya, “Hindi siya nakauunawa”?
Midrash Tehillim
"To the leader; a psalm of David," says Nabal. Why does the verse mention the heart and kidneys out of all the organs? Because the eyes follow the heart, and the ears, intestines, and 248 organs in a person all follow the heart. The kidneys advise the heart, and the heart decides. Therefore, only the heart and kidneys are mentioned, and the Lord examines the heart and tests the kidneys. Similarly, it says, "And you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your fathers and serve him with a perfect heart, for all hearts seek the Lord" (1 Chronicles 28:9). What are these "all hearts"? They are the two hearts that a person has, the good inclination and the evil inclination. Another explanation: "I am the Lord who searches the heart." The wicked say, "We dig deep in our hearts as if the Lord does not know." The Lord says to them, "Woe to those who hide their plans from me" (Isaiah 29:15). You think I am like you, that you can make a likeness to the Creator and plant it for the planter? "Will you be accounted as clay?" (Isaiah 29:16). Rabbi Levi said, "What is this like?" It is like an architect who built a city and made hiding places and chambers, but in the end, a ruler came to take the listers, and they fled and hid themselves in those rooms. He said to them, "Fools, before whom are you hiding? I am the artist who built the city, and I know all of its hiding places better than you." So too, the Lord says to the wicked, "Fools, before whom are you hiding? I created man, and I know all the chambers within him. Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the Lord" (Isaiah 29:15). Rabbi Jeremiah said, "What is meant by 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse: who can know it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)?" And it is written afterward, "I the Lord search the heart" (Jeremiah 17:10). I search for the hearts and reveal the hidden things. And so Daniel says, "He reveals deep and secret things" (Daniel 2:22).
Bereshit Rabbah
“This is the book of the descendants of Adam, on the day that God created man, in the likeness of God He made him” (Genesis 5:1).
“This is the book of the descendants of Adam.” Rabbi Yehoshua Rabba began: “Woe, those who go deep from the Lord to conceal counsel, and their actions are in the dark, and they say: who sees us and who knows of us?” (Isaiah 29:15). This is analogous to an architect who designed a city – its chambers, sewers, and cisterns. Sometime later, he became a tax collector. The residents of the city would conceal themselves from him in the chambers and in the cisterns. He said to them: It is I who built the cisterns! How can you conceal yourselves in them? So, “Woe, those who go deep from the Lord to conceal counsel, and their actions are in the dark.” “In your contrariness you assert that the potter is just like the clay” (Isaiah 29:16) – they liken the product to the craftsman, the plant to the planter. “Can a product say of its maker: ‘He did not make me,’ or the craft say of its craftsman: ‘He does not understand’?” (Isaiah 29:16). “Behold, in just a short while Lebanon1A forest of mighty, but barren, cedars. will be transformed into farmland” (Isaiah 29:17) – into a royal palace;2God will aggrandize the meek. This will disprove the assertion of the wicked that they can conceal their deeds from God, that He is indifferent to man’s actions. “and the farmland will be considered a forest” (Isaiah 29:17) – into forests of men. “On that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book” (Isaiah 29:18) – “this is the book of the descendants of Adam.”3God is the Creator of Adam and all mankind, so he surely knows their thoughts and deeds.
“This is the book of the descendants of Adam.” Rabbi Yehoshua Rabba began: “Woe, those who go deep from the Lord to conceal counsel, and their actions are in the dark, and they say: who sees us and who knows of us?” (Isaiah 29:15). This is analogous to an architect who designed a city – its chambers, sewers, and cisterns. Sometime later, he became a tax collector. The residents of the city would conceal themselves from him in the chambers and in the cisterns. He said to them: It is I who built the cisterns! How can you conceal yourselves in them? So, “Woe, those who go deep from the Lord to conceal counsel, and their actions are in the dark.” “In your contrariness you assert that the potter is just like the clay” (Isaiah 29:16) – they liken the product to the craftsman, the plant to the planter. “Can a product say of its maker: ‘He did not make me,’ or the craft say of its craftsman: ‘He does not understand’?” (Isaiah 29:16). “Behold, in just a short while Lebanon1A forest of mighty, but barren, cedars. will be transformed into farmland” (Isaiah 29:17) – into a royal palace;2God will aggrandize the meek. This will disprove the assertion of the wicked that they can conceal their deeds from God, that He is indifferent to man’s actions. “and the farmland will be considered a forest” (Isaiah 29:17) – into forests of men. “On that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book” (Isaiah 29:18) – “this is the book of the descendants of Adam.”3God is the Creator of Adam and all mankind, so he surely knows their thoughts and deeds.