New International Version
Job 13:12
12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 13:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Context of Job 13:12
10He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality. 11Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you? Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 13“Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may. 14Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?
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זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:12
- Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
- Exodus 17:14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Psalms 34:16but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.
- Psalms 102:12But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
- Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.
- Proverbs 10:7The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isaiah 26:14They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,
- Job 4:19how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built 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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