And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred - spoiled "Of clay" is the true reading, which was corrupted into 'as clay' (margin) through the similarity of the two Hebrew letters [beth (b) and kaph (k)], and from (Jeremiah 18:6) "AS the clay."