Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
New American Standard Bible
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Holman Bible
your defenses are made of clay.
International Standard Version
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."
A Conservative Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Amplified
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Bible in Basic English
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
Darby Translation
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Julia Smith Translation
Your remembrances being likened to ashes, your backs to backs of clay.
King James 2000
Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your maxims [are] proverbs of ashes; your defenses [are] defenses of clay.
Modern King James verseion
Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.
NET Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
The Emphasized Bible
Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?
Webster
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Youngs Literal Translation
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Interlinear
Gab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you? 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay. 13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 2:7
The 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.
Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
Exodus 17:14
The LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial on a scroll, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
Job 4:19
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
Job 18:17
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
Psalm 34:16
The LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 102:12
But you, LORD, will abide forever; your renown endures to all generations.
Psalm 109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 26:14
The dead shall not live, and the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For 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.