Job
King James Version (KJV)
Job 13:12
“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
King James Version (KJV)
Job 13:12 Context
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
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Other Translations
Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"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
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"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
Bible commentary
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.