Job 13:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.”
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BSBPD
“Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Your remembrances <FI>are<Fi> similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 13:12 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
- Job 21:34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
- Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
- Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
- Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isaiah 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
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