Job 13:12 — Bible Verse (KJV)

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

Job 13:12 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Job 13:12 in 6 Bible Translations

Read Job 13:12 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.

Job 13:12 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.”

Job 13:12 — World English Bible

Job 13:12 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Job 13:12 — American Standard Version

Job 13:12 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Your remembrances <FI>are<Fi> similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.”

Job 13:12 — Young's Literal Translation

Job 13:12 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

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

Job 13:12 — Darby Translation

Job 13:12 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.”

Job 13:12 — Geneva Bible

Job 13:12 in Context — Job 13

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

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What Does Job 13:12 Mean?

Job 13:12 is a verse from the Book of Job, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Job chapter 13. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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