Job 13:12

Job chapter 13 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Context

v.11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

v.12This passage

v.13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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:

  • 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.

  • Psalms 102:12

    But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations.

  • Job 4:19

    How much more 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.

  • 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 remembrance of them to perish.