Job 13:12
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you?
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.'
Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
Psalms 34:16(34-17) The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms 109:15Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Isaiah 26:14The dead live not, the shades rise not; to that end hast Thou punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory 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 →