Job 13:12 “Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.”

Job 13:12

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

World English Bible

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

American Standard Version

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Geneva Bible 1599

Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

Darby Translation

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

Young's Literal Translation

Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

Bible in Basic English

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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Cross references

“remembrances”

Job 18:17 Exodus 17:14 Psalm 34:16 Psalm 102:12 Psalm 109:15 Proverbs 10:7

Job 18:17 · BSB

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Exodus 17:14 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Psalm 34:16 · BSB

But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12 · BSB

But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

Psalm 109:15 · BSB

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7 · BSB

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

“ashes”

Genesis 18:27

Genesis 18:27 · BSB

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

“to bodies”

Job 4:19 Genesis 2:7 2 Corinthians 5:1

Job 4:19 · BSB

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Genesis 2:7 · BSB

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

2 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?

13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

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