Job 13:12
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- KJV
- Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- WEB
- Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
- ASV
- Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
- DARBY
- Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
- BLB
- Your⁺ remembrances [are] proverbs of ashes; your⁺ defenses [are] defenses of clay.
- ÅB
- Visdomsordene deres er ordtak av aske; Skansene deres er skanser av leire.
- OTB
- Deres minneverdige ord er ordspråk av aske;
Deres forsvar er forsvar av leire. - B1930
- Eders tankesprog er askesprog; eders skanser blir til skanser av ler. / < d.e. bevisgrunner.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Read in contextExodus 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Read in contextProverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Read in contextPsalms 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Read in contextGenesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Read in contextJob 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Read in contextPsalms 102:12
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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