Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Isaiah 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
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 →