Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 13:12 in context
Job 13:9–15
9
Is it good that he should search you out?
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
10
He will surely reprove you
if you secretly show partiality.
11
Won’t his majesty make you afraid
and his dread fall on you?
12
Selected verse
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
13
“Be silent!
Leave me alone, that I may speak.
Let come on me what will.
14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand?
15
Behold, he will kill me.
I have no hope.
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
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