Job 13:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Your memorable sayings [are] proverbs of ashes, your defences [are] defences of clay.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Your remembrances [are] like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Remember that your power is from the earth, and your dwelling place is of clay.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body [like a body] of clay.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
Your remembrances
2146 {2146} Primeזִכָּרוֹןzikrown{zik-rone'}
From H2142; a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing).
[ are] like
4912 {4912} Primeמָשָׁלmashal{maw-shawl'}
Apparently from H4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action; properly a pithy maxim, usually of a metaphorical nature; hence a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse).
unto ashes,
665 {0665} Primeאֵפֶר'epher{ay'-fer}
From an unused root meaning to bestrew; ashes.
your bodies
1354 {1354} Primeגַּבgab{gab}
From an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare H1460 and H1479); by analogy the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.
to bodies
1354 {1354} Primeגַּבgab{gab}
From an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare H1460 and H1479); by analogy the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.
of clay.
2563 {2563} Primeחֹמֶרchomer{kho'-mer}
From H2560; properly a bubbling up, that is, of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence a chomer or dry measure. |
Job 13:12
_ _ remembrances — “proverbial maxims,” so called because well remembered.
_ _ like unto ashes — or, “parables of ashes”; the image of lightness and nothingness (Isaiah 44:20).
_ _ bodies — rather, “entrenchments”; those of clay, as opposed to those of stone, are easy to be destroyed; so the proverbs, behind which they entrench themselves, will not shelter them when God shall appear to reprove them for their injustice to Job. |
Job 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. |
Job 13:12
Your (d) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
(d) Your fame will come to nothing. |
- 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.
Psalms 34:16 The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms 102:12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms 109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isaiah 26:14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
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- 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:
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- 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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