Job 13:12
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, + 2:7 1 Cor. 15. 45. and the man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and + 17:14 Gr. give.speak this in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalec from + 17:14 Gr. the part under heaven.under heaven.
Job 18:17Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
Psalms 34:16They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.
Isaiah 26:14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall + 26:14 See Job 26. 5.physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
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 →