Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.

New American Standard Bible

“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
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 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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זכרון 
Zikrown 
Usage: 24

משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 39

אפר 
'epher 
Usage: 22

Context Readings

Job's Fourth Speech Continues

11 Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you? 12 Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay. 13 Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah 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 to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

Exodus 17:14

And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this, a memorial in a book, and set it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens.

Job 4:19

How much less in those who live 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, and there is no name to him on the face of the street.

Psalm 34:16

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O Jehovah, shall endure forever; and Your memory to all generations.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth,

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Isaiah 26:14

Dead ones do not live; departed spirits do not rise. Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

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