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Job 13:12

Job and his friends were sitting on ashes. And Job was using a piece of pot to rub against his spots (Job 2:8). Ashes are not useful for any purpose. And cheap pots are weak. So Job meant that his friends’ speeches were hopeless.

Job tells his friends that he is ready to speak to God

v13 So, be silent! Let me speak! Whatever happens, will happen. v14 There is a reason why I put myself in danger. There is a reason why I risk my life. v15 If God kills me, I have no hope. But I will reason with God himself. v16 And God will rescue me, because an evil man would not dare to meet God.

v17 Listen carefully! Think about my words! v18 I am ready to speak to God. And I know what God’s decision will be. God will say that I am innocent. v19 Nobody can accuse me! But if you can accuse me, then speak! Then, I shall be silent. And I shall die as a punishment.

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See also Job 13:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 13:12. _YOUR REMEMBRANCES_ ARE _LIKE UNTO ASHES_] Your _memorable_ _sayings_ are _proverbs of dust_. This is properly the meaning of the original: זכרניכם משלי אפר _zichroneycem mishley ephe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 renders it...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6); and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God for...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse reads, Your remembrances shall be proverbs of ashes, Your defences defences of dust. The term "remembrances" means their traditional sayings, remembered from antiquity, their maxims, suc...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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,_ Job 13:1...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. The friends are self-deceived. (Job 13:1-12) TEXT 13:1-12 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 ol...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 favour...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Your memorable sayings _are_ proverbs of ashes, your defences _are_ defences of clay.' Job regards their view as worthless, and their arguments such as any one could refute. 13-22. He turns from...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 fabr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי ־אֵ֑פֶר לְ גַבֵּי ־חֹ֝֗מֶר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THOUGH HE SLAY ME” Job 13:1 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was sufferin...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 pass...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Your (d) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. (d) Your fame will come to nothing....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Necks. Septuagint, "body." Hebrew also, (Haydock) "heights," (Calmet) or "fortifications." (Grotius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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 de...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 out...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 of ash...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Your remembrances are like unto ashes, literally, "your axioms, proverbs, or maxims are proverbs of ashes," for such they would become when God would set out to judge and punish them, YOUR BODIES TO B...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 understood...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "YOUR MEMORABLE SAYINGS ARE PROVERBS OF ASHES": What they claimed were great insights and wisdom worth remembering were as worthless as the ashes in which Job himself was sitting, and their arguments...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-12 With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or dist...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 4...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 13:12 platitudes H2146 ashes H4912 H665 defenses H1354 defenses H1354 clay H2563 remembrances - Job

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us all that is dear to us in this world, re...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 remembrances are like...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 5:1; Exodus 17:14; Genesis 18:27; Genesis 2:7; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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