Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments 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.

Holman Bible

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;
your defenses 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 His splendor will petrify you with terror, paralyzing you with fear, won't it? 12 Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay." 13 "Don't talk to me! It's my turn to speak; then whatever happens, happens.



Cross References

Genesis 2:7

So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, "Look, even though I am only dust and ashes, I've ventured to speak to my LORD.

Exodus 17:14

Then the LORD told Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua: "I'll certainly wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.'"

Job 4:19

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

Job 18:17

No one remembers him anywhere in the land; no one names streets in his honor.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But you, LORD, are enthroned forever; You are remembered throughout all generations.

Psalm 109:15

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

Proverbs 10:7

The reputation of the righteous leads to blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if the earthly tent we live in is torn down, we have a building in heaven that comes from God, an eternal house not built by human hands.

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