Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
your defenses are made of clay.
New American Standard Bible
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
International Standard Version
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."
A Conservative Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Amplified
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;
Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Bible in Basic English
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
Darby Translation
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Julia Smith Translation
Your remembrances being likened to ashes, your backs to backs of clay.
King James 2000
Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your maxims [are] proverbs of ashes; your defenses [are] defenses of clay.
Modern King James verseion
Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.
NET Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
New Heart English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
The Emphasized Bible
Are not your memorable sayings, proverbs of ashes? Breastworks of clay, your breastworks?
Webster
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Youngs Literal Translation
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Interlinear
Gab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
11
Would His dread not fall on you?
your defenses are made of clay.
Let whatever comes happen to me.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground
Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord—even though I am dust and ashes—
Exodus 17:14
The Lord then said to Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.”
Job 4:19
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
Job 18:17
he has no name anywhere.
Psalm 34:16
against those who do what is evil,
to erase
Psalm 102:12
Your fame endures to all generations.
Psalm 109:15
and let Him erase
Proverbs 10:7
but the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 26:14
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling