Job 13:12

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

Genesis 2:7

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

Job 13:11

Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on you?

Job 13:13

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

Job 18:17

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

Job 21:34

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

Job 27:1

And Job took up his discourse again:

Job 29:1

Then Job continued his speech:

Job 4:19

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

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, rule forever, and your reputation endures.

Psalm 109:15

May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

Psalm 34:16

But the Lord opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

Exodus 17:14

The Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in Joshua’s hearing; for I will surely wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Proverbs 10:7

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

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.