Parallel Verses
Webster
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies 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.
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?
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 excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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, who am dust and ashes, have taken upon me to speak to the Lord.
Exodus 17:14
And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them 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 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 just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall perish.
Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.