New King James Version
Job 13:12
12Your platitudes 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.
- 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 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 will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality. 11Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you? Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay. 13“Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, Then let come on me what may! 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my 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 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name among the renowned.
- Exodus 17:14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Psalms 34:16The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
- Psalms 102:12But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
- Psalms 109:15Let them be continually before the Lord, 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 will rot.
- Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:
- Job 4:19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before a moth?
- Genesis 2:7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, 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
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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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