Job 13:12
The things that you say that you think are wise are as useless as [MET] as ashes; what you say to defend your opinions is no better than [MET] clay that quickly crumbles.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
13“So, be quiet and allow me to speak, and then it will not matter what happens to me.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
Exodus 17:14Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Write an account of this battle, and then read it to Joshua. Also write that some day I will completely get rid of the Amalek people-group.”
Job 18:17No one on the earth will remember them any more; no one on any street will even remember their names [MTY].
Psalms 34:16But Yahweh [SYN] ◄is opposed to/turns away from► those who do what is evil. And after they die, people will forget them completely.
Psalms 109:15think about his sins continually, and cause that his name will be completely forgotten.
Isaiah 26:14Those who ruled us are now gone; they are dead; their spirits have left this earth, and they will not become alive again. You punished those rulers and got rid of them, and people do not even remember them any more.
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 →