Job 13:12
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?
13Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.
Job 18:17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
Psalms 34:16\34:15\The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
Psalms 109:15Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
Isaiah 26:14The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
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 →