God’s Word Translation
Job 13:12
12“Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely 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
10Will he really defend you if you secretly favor ⌞him⌟? 11Doesn’t his majesty terrify you? Doesn’t the fear of him fall upon you? “Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless. 13Be quiet, because I want to speak. Let whatever may happen to me ⌞happen⌟! 14I am biting off more than I can chew and taking my life in my own hands.
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 18:17All memory about him will vanish from the earth, and his reputation will not be known on the street corner.
- Exodus 17:14The Lord said to Moses, “Write this reminder on a scroll, and make sure that Joshua hears it, too: I will completely erase any memory of the Amalekites from the earth.”
- Psalms 34:16The Lord confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
- Psalms 102:12But you, O Lord, remain forever. You are remembered throughout every generation.
- Psalms 109:15Let their guilt and sin always remain on record in front of the Lord. Let the Lord remove every memory of him from the earth,
- Proverbs 10:7The name of a righteous person remains blessed, but the names of wicked people will rot away.
- Isaiah 26:14The wicked are dead. They are no longer alive. The spirits of the dead won’t rise. You have punished them, destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.
- Genesis 18:27Abraham asked, “Consider now, if I may be so bold as to ask you, although I’m ⌞only⌟ dust and ashes,
- Job 4:19How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust. Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1We know that if the life we live here on earth is ever taken down like a tent, we still have a building from God. It is an eternal house in heaven that isn’t made by human hands.
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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