JOB 13:12 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Your traditional sayings are proverbs of ashes.
⇔ ≈Your defenses might as well be made of clay.

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Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX ἀποβήσεται δὲ ὑμῶν τὸ γαυρίαμα ἶσα σποδῷ, τὸ δὲ σῶμα πήλινον.
(apobaʸsetai de humōn to gauriama isa spodōi, to de sōma paʸlinon. )

BrTr And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay.

ULT Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
⇔ your defenses are defenses of clay.

UST You are quoting traditional sayings,
⇔ but they have no value in my situation.
⇔ Your arguments in support of your position
⇔ are very easy for someone to refute.

BSB Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
⇔ your defenses are defenses of clay.

OEB Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
⇔ Your bulwarks are bulwarks of clay.

WEBBE Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
⇔ Your defences are defences of clay.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
⇔ your defenses are defenses of clay.

LSV Your remembrances [are] allegories of ashes,
For high places of clay [are] your heights.

FBV Your sayings are as helpful as ashes; your arguments as weak as clay.

T4T The things that you say that you think are wise are as useless as [MET] as ashes;
⇔ what you say to defend your opinions is no better than [MET] clay that quickly crumbles.

LEB • [fn] maxims are proverbs of ashes; your[fn] defenses are defenses of clay.

13:? Plural

BBE Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

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JPS Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay.

ASV Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
⇔ Your defences are defences of clay.

DRA Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

YLT Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

Drby Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.

RV Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.

Wbstr Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

KJB-1769 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

KJB-1611 Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye.
(Your remembrance is like unto a sparke, and your bodies like the claye.)

Gnva Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
(Your memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay. )

Cvdl youre remembraunce shalbe like the dust, & youre pryde shalbe turned to claye.
(youre remembrance shall be like the dust, and your(pl) pryde shall be turned to claye.)

Wycl Youre mynde schal be comparisound to aische; and youre nollis schulen be dryuun in to clei.
(Youre mind shall be comparisound to aische; and your(pl) nollis should be drivun in to clei.)

Luth Euer Gedächtnis wird verglichen werden der Asche, und euer Rücken wird wie ein Leimenhaufe sein.
(Euer Gedächtnis becomes verglichen become the/of_the Asche, and euer Rücken becomes like a Leimenhaufe sein.)

ClVg Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.[fn]
(Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri, and redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ. )

13.12 Memoria vestra. Quantumlibet quis pro memoria, etc., usque ad et elata caro tabescit in putredine.

13.12 Memoria vestra. Quantumlibet who/any for memoria, etc., until to and elata caro tabescit in putredine.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵי⁠כֶם מִשְׁלֵי־אֵ֑פֶר

maxims,your_all's proverbs ashes

Job is speaking as if the maxims that his friends have been quoting were literally made of ashes. Since, in this culture, garbage was burned into ashes, Job likely means that these maxims are worthless, at least as applied to his situation. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “The memorable proverbs you have been quoting are worthless to me”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לְ⁠גַבֵּי־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּי⁠כֶֽם

as,defenses clay defenses,your_all's

Job is speaking as if his friends’ defenses of God were literally made of clay. He likely means that, like clay, they are fragile and would shatter if struck. Your language may have a similar expression that you could use in your translation. Alternate translation: “your defenses would crumble if anyone challenged you”

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