Verse Comparison: Job 13:12
American Standard Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Amplified® Bible
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes [valueless]; your defenses are defenses of clay [and will crumble].
Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom and arguments are as delicate as dust.
Darby English Version
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
Good News Bible
Your proverbs are as useless as ashes; your arguments are as weak as clay.
King James Version
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
New American Standard Bible
"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
New International Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
New King James Version
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes,
Your defenses are defenses of clay.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Your memorable sayings have become proverbs of ashes, Your defenses resemble defenses of clay.
Revised Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Young's Literal Translation
Your remembrances `are' similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.