Job 13:12
Your maxims are words of dust; Your fortresses are fortresses of clay.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Doth not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?
13Hold your peace, and let me speak: And then come upon me what will!
Cross References
Job 18:17His memory perisheth from the earth, And no name hath he in the land.
Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against evil-doers, To cut off their remembrance from the earth.
Psalms 109:15May they be before the LORD continually; And may he cut off their memory from the earth!
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; They are shades, they shall not rise. For thou hast visited and destroyed them, And caused all the memory of them 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 →