Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 13 connects to 10 cross-references. Job insists he will argue his case directly before the Almighty rather than accept his friends' false, misleading defense of God. He accuses them of speaking wickedly on God's behalf and calls on God to two things: withdraw affliction and …
Other Translations
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Your remembrances <FI>are<Fi> similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
Cross References
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of …
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but …
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears …
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed …
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the …
But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed …