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Job 13:12
12Your wise teaching is worth no more than ashes. Your arguments are weak and useless.
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
10When you speak on God's behalf, you may think that your lies are a secret. But God will still punish you. 11His great power will frighten you. You will be very afraid of him. Your wise teaching is worth no more than ashes. Your arguments are weak and useless. 13So be quiet now and let me speak. Then we will see what happens to me. 14I am ready for my life to be in danger. I must take that risk.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:12 word by word
זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:12
- Job 18:17Nobody remembers that he ever lived. They have forgotten his name.
- Exodus 17:14Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write down what happened here in a book. Then people will remember it. Read it aloud for Joshua to hear. Say that I will completely destroy all the Amalekites. Nobody in the whole world will remember them any more.’
- Psalms 34:16But the Lord turns against people who do evil things. He causes everybody to forget that they ever lived.
- Psalms 102:12But you, Lord, rule for ever as king. People will always remember you.
- Psalms 109:15Lord, never forget his family's sins. May nobody on earth remember his family's name.
- Proverbs 10:7It is a pleasure to remember righteous people. But when wicked people die, people soon forget their name.
- Isaiah 26:14Those other lords are dead. They will not live again. Their spirits will not rise up again. You punished them and you destroyed them. Nobody remembers them any more.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham spoke again. He said, ‘I have been brave enough to speak to the Lord. I know that I am nothing more than dust and ashes.
- Job 4:19God used clay to make bodies for us who are humans. We came from the dust of the earth. We are as weak as moths.
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Our bodies are like a tent that we live in here on earth. One day, that home will come to an end. But we know that God will give us a new home. It is not a house that a human builder has built. God has built it for us in heaven and we will live there for ever.
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
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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
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