Job Chapter 13 verse 12 Holy Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
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Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
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Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
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Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Your remembrances `are' similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Your remembrances are like unto ashes. The "remembrances" intended are probably the wise saws, embodiments of the ancient wisdom, on which Job's adversaries have relied in their disputations with him (Job 4:7, 8; Job 8:8-11, etc.). These Job declares to be mere dust and ashes - useless, worthless, such as the first breath of air wilt blow away. Your bodies to bodies of clay; rather, your mounds or your defences (see the Revised Version). These defences, Job says - i.e, the arguments by which his opponents support their views - are no better than "defences of clay " - easy to batter down and destroy. The ancient defences of a town were usually either of stone, as at Khorsabad ('Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 1. pp. 278, 279), or of crude brick faced with burnt brick, as at Babylon and elsewhere. But Job seems to be speaking of something more primitive than either of these - mere earthworks, like the Roman aggera hastily thrown up and easy to level with the ground.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Remembrances--i.e. "Wise and memorable saws of garnered wisdom are proverbs of ashes, worthless as the dust, and fit for bodies of clay like your bodies." Or, as some understand it, "Your high fabrics, or defences, are fabrics of clay," as an independent parallelism.
