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Job 13:12
Job 13:12 is verse 12 of Job chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Job 13:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
11 Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
14 Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.