Job 13:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

New Living Translation
Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.

English Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Berean Study Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

New American Standard Bible
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

NASB 1995
"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

NASB 1977
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

Amplified Bible
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.

Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.

Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom and arguments will blow away like dust.

Good News Translation
Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.

International Standard Version
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

NET Bible
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

New King James Version
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

King James 2000 Bible
Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

New Heart English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

World English Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

American King James Version
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

A Faithful Version
Your lofty sayings are like proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are like defenses of clay.

Darby Bible Translation
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

English Revised Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.

Webster's Bible Translation
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
youre remembraunce shalbe like the dust, & youre pryde shalbe turned to claye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes, "" For high places of clay [are] your heights.

Young's Literal Translation
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

Smith's Literal Translation
Your remembrances being likened to ashes, your backs to backs of clay.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Remember that your power is from the dust, and your lofty dwelling is upon a bank of clay

Lamsa Bible
Remember that your power is from the earth, and your dwelling place is of clay.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, Your eminences to eminences of clay.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.
















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