Job 13:12
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.
Job 18:17Let the memory of him perish from the earth and let not his name be renowned in the streets.
Psalms 34:16The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.
Psalms 109:15May they be before the lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:
Isaiah 26:14Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best destroyed all their memory.
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 →