Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
your defenses are made of clay.

New American Standard Bible

“Your memorable sayings 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.

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זכרון 
Zikrown 
Usage: 24

משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 39

אפר 
'epher 
Usage: 22

Context Readings

Job's Fourth Speech Continues

11 Would God’s majesty not terrify you?
Would His dread not fall on you?
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
your defenses are made of clay.
13 Be quiet, and I will speak.
Let whatever comes happen to me.



Cross References

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

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

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!

Job 18:17

All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,
to erase all memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But You, Lord, are enthroned forever;
Your fame endures to all generations.

Psalm 109:15

Let their sins always remain before the Lord,
and let Him erase all memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7

The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live;
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 is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

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