Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?
13“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
Job 18:17His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
Psalms 34:16The LORD’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
Psalms 109:15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
Isaiah 26:14The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all 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 →