Job 13:12
Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.
Exodus 17:14And the Lord sayde to Moses, Write this for a remembrance in the booke, and rehearse it to Ioshua: for I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen.
Job 18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
Psalms 34:16But the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill, to cut off their remembrance from the earth.
Psalms 109:15But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.
Isaiah 26:14The dead shall not liue, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memorie.
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 →