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Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Proverbs of Ashes
Commentators agree that Job is dismissing his friends' counsel as completely worthless. By calling their memorable sayings and proverbs "proverbs of ashes," he declares their treasured wisdom to be as insubstantial and valueless as dust, easily blown away and offering no nourishment or substance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your remembrances are like unto ashes - There has been a considerable variety in the interpretation of this verse. The meaning in o…
19th Century
Anglican
Remembrances — that is, “Wise and memorable sayings of garnered wisdom are proverbs of ashes, worthless as the dust, and fit for b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes Either of things they put Job in remembrance of, the mementos which they had…
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With self-importance, Job declared that he did not need to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves and belittle thei…
13th Century
Catholic
After Job showed that the excellence of God's power could be known by experience, he concludes, “Behold, my eye has seen all these things and m…
