Job 13:12

WEB

¹²Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

KJV

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

BSB

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

FBV

¹²Your sayings are as helpful as ashes; your arguments as weak as clay.

Extra References

Psalms 109:15

¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

Job 4:19

¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Isaiah 26:14

¹⁴The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

Genesis 18:27

²⁷Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

2 Corinthians 5:1

¹For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Exodus 17:14

¹⁴The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

Proverbs 10:7

⁷The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Job 18:17

¹⁷His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

Psalms 102:12

¹²But you, LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

Genesis 2:7

⁷The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.