¹⁵ Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?^(A)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club^(B) brandish the one who is not wood!

¹⁶ You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(A)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(B) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(C)
    “You know nothing”?^(D)