“ Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. ”
Your remembrances are like unto ashes - There has been a considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. The meaning in our common version is certainly not very clear. The Vulgate rende...
Your (d) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. (d) Your fame will come to nothing.
Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not inferior to you in knowledge, says Job ( Job 13:2...
remembrances . memorable or weighty sayings. like unto ashes . similitudes of ashes: i.e. light. bodies . defences. Hebrew. gab = mounds. Add "[like to] clay defences ": i.e. weak.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Your remembrances are like unto ashes - Your memorable sayings are proverbs of dust. This is properly the meaning of the origin...
Shall not his excellency, &c.— His majesty shall wholly confound you, and his terror shall fall upon you; Job 13:12 . Your boasting shall be like unto dust; your pride like a heap of sand,...
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Remembrances - `proverbial maxims,' so called because well-remembered: 'memorial sentences,' are - rather, shall becom...
Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...
Remembrances — i.e. “Wise and memorable saws of garnered wisdom are proverbs of ashes, worthless as the dust, and fit for bodies of clay like your bodies.” Or, as some understand it, “Your high f...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I d...
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes ,.... Either of things they put Job in remembrance of, the mementos which they had suggested to him; see Job 4:7 ; or the things which they had brought forth...
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Ver. 12. Your remembrances are like unto ashes, &c. ] Mr Beza readeth the whole verse thus: Your speeches are the words...
Shall not his excellency His infinite wisdom, which sees your secret falsehood, and his justice and power, which can and will punish you for it; make you afraid? Of speaking rashly or falsely of...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...
Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath he...
Your remembrances; either, 1. Actively, i.e. your memorials, or your discourses and arguments, by which you design to bring things to my remembrance. So he might possibly allude to that passage,...
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...
Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...
EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...
Job Defends God Against the Suspicion of Arbitrariness
2 Corinthians 5:1 ; Exodus 17:14 ; Genesis 18:27 ; Genesis 2:7 ; Isaiah 26:14 ; Job 18:17 ; Job 4:19 ; Proverbs 10:7 ; Psalms 102:12 ; Psalms 109:15 ; Psalms 34:16
Remembrance — Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending God. Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and unprofitable.