Parallel Verses

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 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.

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 Would not his excellence terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you? 12 “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Keep silent and let me speak! Then let come to me what may.

Cross References

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 18:27

Then Abraham answered and said: Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:

Exodus 17:14

After the fight Jehovah said to Moses: Write an account of this victory and read it to Joshua. I want the Amalekites to be forgotten forever.

Job 4:19

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth. He has no name in the street.

Psalm 34:16

Jehovah confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O Jehovah, remain forever. Your name is for all generations.

Psalm 109:15

Let their guilt and sin always remain on record in front of Jehovah. Let Jehovah remove every memory of him from the earth,

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is blessed. The name of the wicked will waste away.

Isaiah 26:14

They are now dead and they live no more. The deceased do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin. You wiped out all memory (memorial) (commemoration) of them.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

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