Job 13:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
  • Exod 17:14 : 14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
  • Ps 34:16 : 16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

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