Job 13:12
Your zichron meshalim (memorable sayings) are like unto ashes, 1 your defenses are strongholds of chomer (clay). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not His majesty make you afraid? 1 And the pachad of Him fall upon you? 1
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that Ani (I) may speak, 1 and let come on me what will. 1
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.
Exodus 17:14And Hashem said unto Moshe, Write this for a zikaron (memorial, remembering) in a sefer, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua; for I will utterly efface the memory of Amalek from under Shomayim.
Job 18:17His memory shall perish from the earth, 1 and he shall have no shem in the land. 1
Psalms 34:16The eyes of Hashem are upon the tzaddikim, 1 and His ears open to their cry. 1
Psalms 109:15Let them be before Hashem tamid, 1 that He may cut off the memory of them from ha'aretz. 1
Isaiah 26:14They are mesim (dead ones), they shall not live; 1 they are refa'im (dead ones), + 26:14 See Job 26:5 they shall not rise; 1 therefore Thou hast visited and destroyed them, 1 and made all their zekher (memory) to perish. 1
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 →