12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
12 Your remembrances `are' similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,