Job 13:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Your remembrances are like unto ashes, Your bodies to bodies of clay.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes [valueless]; your defenses are defenses of clay [and will crumble].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Common English Bible

¹² Your old sayings are proverbs made of ashes, your sayings defenses made of clay.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.

Job 13:12 Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Job 18:17

Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a remembrance in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Job 13:11

Will not his majesty terrify you and the dread of him fall upon you?

Job 13:13

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Job 27:1

Job again took up his discourse and said:

Job 29:1

Job again took up his discourse and said:

Job 21:34

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”