Job 13:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

ASV

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

LSV

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

YLT

Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

DBY

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

DRC

Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

GNV

Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

JPS

Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ γαυρίαμα ἶσα σποδῷ, τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
• 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 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
• Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
• 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!
• 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.”
• Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
• Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

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