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Job 13:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. "
Job 13:12
Verse in Context
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He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
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
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
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Job 13:1
"Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood"
Job 13:2
"What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior"
Job 13:3
"Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God."
Job 13:4
"But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value."
Job 13:5
"O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."
Job 13:6
"Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
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