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Job 13:12

NETBible	Your maxims¹ are proverbs of ashes;² your defenses³ are defenses of clay.⁴
NIV © biblegateway Job 13:12	Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defences are defences of clay.
NASB © biblegateway Job 13:12	"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
NLT © biblegateway Job 13:12	Your statements have about as much value as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
MSG © biblegateway Job 13:12	Your wise sayings are knickknack wisdom, good for nothing but gathering dust.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 13:12	Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 13:12	Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 13:12	Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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KJV	Your remembrances <02146> [are] like <04912> unto ashes <0665>_, your bodies <01354> to bodies <01354> of clay <02563>_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 13:12	"Your memorable <02146> sayings <02146> are proverbs <04912> of ashes <0665> , Your defenses <01354> are defenses <01354> of clay <02563> .
LXXM	apobhsetai <576> V-FMI-3S de <1161> PRT umwn <4771> P-GP to <3588> T-NSN agauriama {N-NSN} isa <2470> ADV spodw <4700> N-DSF to <3588> T-ASN de <1161> PRT swma <4983> N-ASN phlinon {A-ASN}
NET [draft] ITL	Your maxims <02146> are proverbs <04911> of ashes <0665> ; your defenses <01354> are defenses <01354> of clay <02563> .
HEBREW	Mkybg <01354> rmx <02563> ybgl <01354> rpa <0665> ylsm <04911> Mkynrkz (13:12) <02146>

NETBible

Your maxims¹ are proverbs of ashes;² your defenses³ are defenses of clay.⁴

NET Notes

¹tn The word is זִכְרֹנֵיכֶם (zikhronekhem, “your remembrances”). The word זִכָּרֹן (zikkaron) not only can mean the act of remembering, but also what is remembered – what provokes memory or is worth being remembered. In the plural it can mean all the memorabilia, and in this verse all the sayings and teachings. H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 99) suggests that in Job’s speech it could mean “all your memorized sayings.”

²tn The parallelism of “dust” and “ashes” is fairly frequent in scripture. But “proverbs of ashes” is difficult. The genitive is certainly describing the proverbs; it could be classified as a genitive of apposition, proverbs that are/have become ashes. Ashes represent something that at one time may have been useful, but now has been reduced to what is worthless.

³tn There is a division of opinion on the source of this word. Some take it from “answer”, related to Arabic, Aramaic, and Syriac words for “answer,” and so translate it “responses” (JB). Others take it from a word for “back,” with a derived meaning of the “boss” of the shield, and translate it bulwark or “defenses” (NEB, RSV, NIV). The idea of “answers” may fit the parallelism better, but “defenses” can be taken figuratively to refer to verbal defenses.

⁴sn Any defense made with clay would crumble on impact.