Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.In other versions
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
ASV
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
BBE
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
DBY
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
WEB
Your remembrances `are' similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
YLT
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
ENG
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
WBT
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
BSB
In context
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?