King James Version
Job 13:12 in the King James Version says “Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
Job 13:12 · KJV
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Hold: Heb. Be silent from me
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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“are like”
H4912properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)
“to bodies”
H1354the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc
“of clay”
H2563properly, a bubbling up, i.e., of water, a wave; hence, a chomer or dry measure
“to bodies”
H1354the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc
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