Job 13:12
What does Job 13:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 13:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Your remembrances <FI>are<Fi> similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Context
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.
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