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Job 13:12
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
Job 13:12 · Bible in Basic English
Job 13:12 in other translations
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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In context
9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
10 He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.
11 Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?
12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
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