New Living Translation
Job 13:12
12Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
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
10No, you will be in trouble with him if you secretly slant your testimony in his favor. 11Doesn’t his majesty terrify you? Doesn’t your fear of him overwhelm you? Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot. 13“Be silent now and leave me alone. Let me speak, and I will face the consequences. 14Why should I put myself in mortal danger and take 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:12
- Job 18:17All memory of their existence will fade from the earth; no one will remember their names.
- Exodus 17:14After the victory, the Lord instructed Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a permanent reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will erase the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Psalms 34:16But the Lord turns his face against those who do evil; he will erase their memory from the earth.
- Psalms 102:12But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.
- Psalms 109:15May the Lord always remember these sins, and may his name disappear from human memory.
- Proverbs 10:7We have happy memories of the godly, but the name of a wicked person rots away.
- Isaiah 26:14Those we served before are dead and gone. Their departed spirits will never return! You attacked them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham spoke again. “Since I have begun, let me speak further to my Lord, even though I am but dust and ashes.
- Job 4:19how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not 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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