Job 13:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
  • Exod 17:14 : 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
  • Ps 34:16 : 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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  • Job 4:19-20
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    19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

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