Job 13:12
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Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
“Your memorable sayings are [worthless, merely] proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of [crumbling] clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes [valueless]; your defenses are defenses of clay [and will crumble].
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.
Your old sayings are proverbs made of ashes, your sayings defenses made of clay.
Your maxims are garbage-proverbs; your answers crumble like clay.
Your wisdom and arguments will blow away like dust.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
The wise sayings you quote are worthless. Your arguments are as weak as clay.
Your wise teaching is worth no more than ashes. Your arguments are weak and useless.
Your axioms are proverbs made of ashes. Your strong points are made of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defences are defences of clay.
Your ·wise sayings [L proclamations] are ·worth no more than ashes [L are made of dust], and your ·arguments [responses] are ·as weak as [L made of] clay.
Your memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies unto bodies of clay.
“Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.
Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash; your defenses are made of clay.
Your wise sayings are worth no more than ashes. Your arguments are as weak as clay.
Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay.”
Your memories shall be compared unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
These tremendous statements you have made have about as much value as ashes. Your defense of God is as fragile as a clay vase!
“Listen now while I make my case, consider my side of things for a change. Or are you going to keep on lying ‘to do God a service’? to make up stories ‘to get him off the hook’? Why do you always take his side? Do you think he needs a lawyer to defend himself? How would you fare if you were in the witness stand? Your lies might convince a jury—but would they convince God? He’d reprimand you on the spot if he detected a bias in your witness. Doesn’t his splendor put you in awe? Aren’t you afraid to speak cheap lies before him? Your wise sayings are knickknack wisdom, good for nothing but gathering dust.
Your reminders are parables made of ashes; your answers are answers made of clay.
“Your recollections are worthless proverbs. Your answers are absolutely useless.
Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications mounds of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
“Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
The ideas you propose are proverbs of ash; your arguments are defenses of clay.
Your wise sayings are worth no more than ashes, and your arguments are as weak as clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your sayings are as useless as ashes. The answers you give are as weak as clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defences are defences of clay.
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your wise sayings are sayings of ashes. Your strength is the strength of clay.
Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes. Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your zichron meshalim (memorable sayings) are like unto ashes, your defenses are strongholds of chomer (clay).
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
All your quoted proverbs turn to ash; your clever comebacks crumble like brittle towers of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your mind shall be comparisoned to ashes; and your nolls shall be driven down into (the) clay.
Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
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