Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
13Be quiet. Let me alone that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Psalms 34:16(The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)
Psalms 109:15Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
Isaiah 26:14[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →