Job 13:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר לְגַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

zikrōnêkem mišlê-ʾēper legabbê-ḥōmer gabbêkem

Grammar Details

*zikrōnêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your memorable sayings
*mišlê*: noun, masculine plural construct - proverbs of
*ʾēper*: noun, masculine singular - ashes/dust
*legabbê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - to mounds of
*ḥōmer*: noun, masculine singular - clay/mud
*gabbêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your defenses/bulwarks

Word Meanings

*zikrōnêkem*: your memorable sayings/your maxims/your remembrances
*mišlê*-*ʾēper*: proverbs of ashes/maxims of dust
*gabbê*-*ḥōmer*: mounds of clay/heaps of mud
*gabbêkem*: your defenses/your strongholds/your arguments

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 2:7 : 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.
Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Exod 17:14 : 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.
Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 18:17 : 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Ps 34:16 : 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Ps 102:12 : 12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Isa 26:14 : 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
2 Cor 5:1 : 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.

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