Job 13:12
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, 1 And your body like a body of clay. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, 1 And terror from him fall upon you? 1
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger, 1
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak this in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalek from under heaven.
Job 18:17Let his memorial perish out of the earth, 1 And his name shall be publicly cast out. 1
Psalms 34:16They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, 1 They gnashed their teeth upon me. 1
Isaiah 26:14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;
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 →