Job 13:12
New International Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

New Living Translation
Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.

English Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Berean Standard Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

King James Bible
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

New King James Version
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

New American Standard Bible
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

NASB 1995
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

NASB 1977
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Amplified Bible
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.

Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.

American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Remember that your power is from the dust, and your lofty dwelling is upon a bank of clay

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom and arguments will blow away like dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

English Revised Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.

Good News Translation
Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay.

International Standard Version
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, Your eminences to eminences of clay.

Literal Standard Version
Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, | For high places of clay [are] your heights.

Majority Standard Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

New American Bible
Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications mounds of clay.

NET Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

New Revised Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

New Heart English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Webster's Bible Translation
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Young's Literal Translation
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

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Context
Job Reproves His Friends
11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you? 12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.…

Cross References
Job 13:11
Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?

Job 13:13
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.

Job 27:1
Job continued his discourse:

Job 29:1
And Job continued his discourse:


Treasury of Scripture

Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

remembrances

Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Exodus 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

ashes

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

to bodies

Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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Job 13
1. Job reproves his friends for partiality
14. He professes his confidence in God;
19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him














(12) Remembrances--i.e. "Wise and memorable saws of garnered wisdom are proverbs of ashes, worthless as the dust, and fit for bodies of clay like your bodies." Or, as some understand it, "Your high fabrics, or defences, are fabrics of clay," as an independent parallelism.

Verse 12. - Your remembrances are like unto ashes. The "remembrances" intended are probably the wise saws, embodiments of the ancient wisdom, on which Job's adversaries have relied in their disputations with him (Job 4:7, 8; Job 8:8-11, etc.). These Job declares to be mere dust and ashes - useless, worthless, such as the first breath of air wilt blow away. Your bodies to bodies of clay; rather, your mounds or your defences (see the Revised Version). These defences, Job says - i.e, the arguments by which his opponents support their views - are no better than "defences of clay " - easy to batter down and destroy. The ancient defences of a town were usually either of stone, as at Khorsabad ('Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 1. pp. 278, 279), or of crude brick faced with burnt brick, as at Babylon and elsewhere. But Job seems to be speaking of something more primitive than either of these - mere earthworks, like the Roman aggera hastily thrown up and easy to level with the ground.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your maxims
זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם (ziḵ·rō·nê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2146: Memorial, remembrance

are proverbs
מִשְׁלֵי־ (miš·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

of ashes;
אֵ֑פֶר (’ê·p̄er)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 665: Ashes

your defenses
לְגַבֵּי־ (lə·ḡab·bê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

are defenses
גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃ (gab·bê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

of clay.
חֹ֝֗מֶר (ḥō·mer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2563: A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure


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