Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
13Hold your peace from me, and I will speak, and let come on me what [will]!
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this [for] a memorial in the book, and rehearse [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.
Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
Psalms 34:16The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth:
Psalms 109:15Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:
Isaiah 26:14[They are] dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory 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 →