Job 13:12
Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
In Context
11Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
13Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And Jehovah God formeth the man — dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
Exodus 17:14And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Write this, a memorial in a Book, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I do utterly wipe away the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens;'
Job 18:17His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street.
Psalms 34:16(The face of Jehovah [is] on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)
Psalms 109:15They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.
Isaiah 26:14Dead — they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.
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 →