Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
BSB
ASV
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
KJV
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 original: זכרניכם משלי אפר zichroneycem mishley epher. This he speaks in reference to the ancient and reputedly wise sayings which they had so copiously quoted against him. Your bodies to bodies of clay - This clause is variously translated: Your swelling heaps are swelling heaps of mire.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
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2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
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But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,