Parallel Verses
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.
New Heart English Bible
Your memorable sayings 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
Certainly his excellency should make you afraid, and his dread should fall upon you.
12
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Names
Cross References
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.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes;
Exodus 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book and tell Joshua that I must utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Job 4:19
How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!
Job 18:17
His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the streets.
Psalm 34:16
Ain The anger of the LORD is against those that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalm 102:12
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance 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.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall stink.
Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise because thou hast visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.