Job 13:12
The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Doth not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
13Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over me what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
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 the heavens.
Job 18:17His resemblance vanisheth from the earth, and no name remaineth for him in the streets.
Psalms 34:16(34:17) [But] the anger of the Lord is against those that do evil, to cut off from the earth their remembrance.
Psalms 109:15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off from the earth their memory.
Isaiah 26:14[They are] dead, they will not live [again]; [they are] departed, they will not rise [again]; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made to perish every memorial 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 →