Job 13:12
Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, || For high places of clay [are] your heights.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?
13Keep silent from me, and I speak, || And pass over me what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.
Exodus 17:14And YHWH says to Moses, “Write this, a memorial in a Scroll, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens”;
Job 18:17His memorial has perished from the land, || And he has no name on the street.
Psalms 34:16(The face of YHWH [is] on doers of evil, || To cut off their memorial from earth.)
Psalms 109:15They are continually before YHWH, || And He cuts off their memorial from earth.
Isaiah 26:14Dead—they do not live, || Rephaim, they do not rise, || Therefore You have inspected and destroy them, || Indeed, you destroy all their memory.
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 →