Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs made of ashes; 1 your defenses are defenses made of clay. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Will not his majesty terrify you, 1 and the dread of him fall upon you? 1
13Hold your peace, let me alone, so that I may speak, 1 let come what may on me. 1
Cross References
Genesis 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
Exodus 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies.”
Job 18:17His memory will perish from the earth; 1 he will have no name in the street. 1
Psalms 34:16The face of Yahweh is against those who do evil, 1 to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 1
Psalms 109:15May their guilt always be before Yahweh; 1 may Yahweh cut off their memory from the earth. 1
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they will not live; they are deceased, they will not arise. 1 Indeed, you came in judgment and destroyed them, and made every memory of them 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 →