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New International Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
New Living Translation
Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
English Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Berean Study Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
King James Bible
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
New King James Version
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
New American Standard Bible
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
NASB 1995
"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
NASB 1977
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Amplified Bible
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.
American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Brenton Septuagint Translation
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.
Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom and arguments will blow away like dust.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
English Revised Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
Good News Translation
Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.
International Standard Version
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."
JPS Tanakh 1917
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, Your eminences to eminences of clay.
Literal Standard Version
Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, "" For high places of clay [are] your heights.
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.
World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Young's Literal Translation
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Additional Translations ...
Study Bible
Job Reproves His Friends
…11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you? 12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.…
Berean Study Bible · Download
Cross References
Job 13:11
Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
Job 13:13
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Job 27:1
Job continued his discourse:
Job 29:1
And Job continued his discourse:
Treasury of Scripture
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
remembrances
Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Exodus 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
ashes
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
to bodies
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Genesis 2:7
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.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
