Job 13:12
“Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
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Job 13:12 Context
10He will surely reprooue you, if yee doe secretly accept persons. 11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his dread fall vpon you? 12Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will. 14Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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Other Translations for Job 13:12
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- King James Version
"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
- Basic English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
- Darby Bible
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- Webster's Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
- World English Bible
Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 13:12
13:12 Remembrance - Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending God. Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and unprofitable.