Job 13:12
Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Shall not, his majesty, overwhelm you? and, the dread of him, fall upon you?
13Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life—and man became a living soul.
Exodus 17:14Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Write this as a remembrancer in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua—that I will, wipe out, the remembrance of Amalek, from under the heavens.
Job 18:17His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;
Psalms 34:16the face of Yahweh, is against such as do wickedness, To cut off, from the earth, their memory.
Psalms 109:15Let them be before Yahweh continually, and let the memory of them, be cut off out of the earth.
Isaiah 26:14The dead, come not to life again, The shades, do not arise,—Therefore, thou hast visited and destroyed them, And caused to perish every memorial of them.
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 →