12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
    your defenses are defenses of clay.(A)

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

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12 Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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Would they argue with useless words,
    with speeches that have no value?(A)

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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?

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