Job 13:12

Job 13:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
• New International Version (NIV)Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Context of Job 13:12

10He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality. 11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you? Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay. 13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will. 14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

Job 13:12 word by word

זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• ashesאֵ֫פֶר'êpher · ashesH665

Cross-references for Job 13:12

• Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
• Exodus 17:14and Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• Psalms 34:16The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
• Psalms 102:12But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations.
• Psalms 109:15Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
• Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
• Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
• Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
• Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
• Genesis 2:7And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Commentaries on Job 13:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Your remembrances are like unto ashes - Your memorable sayings are proverbs of dust. This is properly the meaning of the original: אפר משלי זכרניכם zichroneycem mishley epher . This he speaks in reference to the ancient and reputedly wise sayings which they had so copiously quoted against him. Your bodies to bodies of clay - This clause is variously translated: Your swelling heaps are swelling heaps of mire. That is, Your high-flown speeches are dark…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Your remembrances are like unto ashes - There has been a considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. The meaning in our common version is certainly not very clear. The Vulgate renders it, Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri. The Septuagint, ̓́ ̀ ̔͂ ̀ ́ ̓͂ ͂ͅ Apobēsetai de humōn to gauriama isa spodō - “your boasting shall pass away like ashes.” Dr. Good renders it, “Dust are your stored-up sayings.” Noyes, “Your maxims are words of dust.”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Ashes have no value (see Isaiah 44:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. remembrances--"proverbial maxims," so called because well remembered. like unto ashes--or, "parables of ashes"; the image of lightness and nothingness (Is 44:20). bodies--rather, "entrenchments"; those of clay, as opposed to those of stone, are easy to be destroyed; so the proverbs, behind which they entrench themselves, will not shelter them when God shall appear to reprove them for their injustice to Job.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 13:12

• Life
• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Dread
• Motheaten
• Spend
• Value
• Ashes
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• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings