Job 13:12

Job 13:12 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

12“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

12“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes;

Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.

12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,

Your defences are defences of clay.

12Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

12Your sayings are as useless as ashes.

The answers you give are as weak as clay.

12Your wise teaching is worth no more than ashes.

Your arguments are weak and useless.

12Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, || For high places of clay [are] your heights.