Job 13:12

Modern

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Traditional

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Literal

Your remembrances are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Latin

Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.

Hebrew

English

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Ashes have no value (see Isaiah 44:20).

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For 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.
Psalm 109:15
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Psalm 34:16
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
Genesis 18:27
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Job 4:19
…how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Isaiah 26:14
The 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.
Psalm 102:12
But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
Genesis 2:7
Then 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.
Job 18:17
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Exodus 17:14
Then 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.”