Job 13:12
Your sayings are as helpful as ashes; your arguments as weak as clay.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Isn't his majesty terrifying to you? Aren't you so afraid of him you're paralyzed?
13Be quiet. Don't talk to me. Let me speak, come what may.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being.
Exodus 17:14The Lord told Moses, “Write all this down on a scroll as a reminder and read it out loud to Joshua, because I'm going to completely wipe out the Amalekites so nobody on earth will remember them.”
Job 18:17the memory of them fades from the earth; nobody remembers their names any more.
Psalms 34:16The Lord sets himself against those who do evil. He will wipe out even the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:15May their sins be constantly before the Lord; may his name be totally forgotten by people.
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they will not live again; they will not rise from the grave. Lord, you punished them and destroyed them—even wiping out every memory about 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 →