Job 13:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes: and your necks shall be brought to clay.

Job 13:12 Cross References

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:

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.

Job 13:11

Shall not his excellency make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

Job 13:13

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, And let come on me what wilt.

Job 18:17

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

Job 27:1

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 29:1

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 4:19

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; And thy memorial unto all generations.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the LORD continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

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: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

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.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.