Job 13:12
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Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

remembrances

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Exodus 17:14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.

Psalm 34:16 But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

Psalm 109:15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Isaiah 26:14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

ashes

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

to bodies

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you. 12Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.…
Cross References
Job 13:11
As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.

Job 13:13
Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 27:1
Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

Job 29:1
Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

Lexicon
Your maxims
זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם (ziḵ·rō·nê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2146: Memorial, remembrance

are proverbs
מִשְׁלֵי־ (miš·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

of ashes;
אֵ֑פֶר (’ê·p̄er)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 665: Ashes

your defenses
לְגַבֵּי־ (lə·ḡab·bê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

are defenses
גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃ (gab·bê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

of clay.
חֹ֝֗מֶר (ḥō·mer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2563: A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure


Additional Translations
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.

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

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
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