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 become. The old sentences to which you refer me (Job 8:8) shall become sentences of ashes.
Like unto ashes - or, 'parables of ashes'; the image of lightness and nothingness (Isaiah 44:20, "He feedeth on ashes." When weighed in God's balance, they shall be found light as ashes, and shall be scattered away).
Bodies, х gabiym (H1354)] - rather, 'entrenchments;' those of clay, as opposed to those of stone, are easy to be destroyed; so the proverbs, behind which they entrench themselves, will not shelter them, when God shall appear to reprove them for their injustice to Job.