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Verse Job 13:12. _YOUR REMEMBRANCES_ ARE _LIKE UNTO ASHES_] Your
_memorable_ _sayings_ are _proverbs of dust_. This is properly the
meaning of the original: זכרניכם משלי אפר _zichroneycem
mishley ephe...
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YOUR REMEMBRANCES ARE LIKE UNTO ASHES - There has been a considerable
variety in the interpretation of this verse. The meaning in our common
version is certainly not very clear. The Vulgate renders it...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God (Job 13:14)
5. The brevity a...
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Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the
friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must
reject. I am not inferior to you in knowledge, says Job (Job 13:2)....
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REMEMBRANCES. memorable or weighty sayings.
LIKE UNTO ASHES. similitudes of ashes: i.e. light.
BODIES. defences. Hebrew. _gab =_ mounds. Add "[like to] clay defences
": i.e. weak....
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Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with
partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6);
and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God for...
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SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY, &C.— _His majesty shall wholly confound
you, and his terror shall fall upon you;_ Job 13:12. _Your boasting
shall be like unto dust; your pride like a heap of sand,_ Job 13:1...
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4. The friends are self-deceived. (Job 13:1-12)
TEXT 13:1-12
LO, MINE EYE HATH SEEN ALL _this,_
MINE EAR HATH HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT.
2 What ye know, _the same_ DO I KNOW ALSO:
I am not inferior...
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_YOUR REMEMBRANCES ARE LIKE UNTO ASHES, YOUR BODIES TO BODIES OF
CLAY._
Remembrances - `proverbial maxims,' so called because well-remembered:
'memorial sentences,' ARE - rather, shall become. The ol...
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JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONTINUED)
1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He
rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it
as an attempt to curry favour...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 13
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
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REMEMBRANCES — _i.e._ “Wise and memorable saws of garnered wisdom
are proverbs of ashes, worthless as the dust, and fit for bodies of
clay like your bodies.” Or, as some understand it, “Your high
fabr...
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זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם מִשְׁלֵי ־אֵ֑פֶר לְ
גַבֵּי ־חֹ֝֗מֶר גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃...
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“THOUGH HE SLAY ME”
Job 13:1
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an
appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his
sins, for which he was sufferin...
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Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge
was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God
(1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pass...
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Your (d) remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of
clay.
(d) Your fame will come to nothing....
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_Necks. Septuagint, "body." Hebrew also, (Haydock) "heights," (Calmet)
or "fortifications." (Grotius)_...
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(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and
understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not
inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I
de...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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YOUR REMEMBRANCES [ARE] LIKE UNTO ASHES,.... Either of things they put
Job in remembrance of, the mementos which they had suggested to him;
see Job 4:7; or the things which they had brought forth out...
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Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of
clay.
Ver. 12. _Your remembrances are like unto ashes, &c._] Mr Beza
readeth the whole verse thus: Your speeches are the words of ash...
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_Shall not his excellency_ His infinite wisdom, which sees your secret
falsehood, and his justice and power, which can and will punish you
for it; _make you afraid?_ Of speaking rashly or falsely of h...
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JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...
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JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS
(vv.1-12)
Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells
Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and
understood...
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"YOUR MEMORABLE SAYINGS ARE PROVERBS OF ASHES": What they claimed were
great insights and wisdom worth remembering were as worthless as the
ashes in which Job himself was sitting, and their arguments...
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1-12 With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be
taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves,
and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or
distr...
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YOUR REMEMBRANCES; either,
1. Actively, i.e. your memorials, or your discourses and arguments, by
which you design to bring things to my remembrance. So he might
possibly allude to that passage, JOB...
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Job 13:12 platitudes H2146 ashes H4912 H665 defenses H1354 defenses
H1354 clay H2563
remembrances - Job 18:17; Exodus 17:14; Psalms 34:16, Psalms 102:12,
Psalms 109:15;...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us
all that is dear to us in this world, re...
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Job 13:4. _Forgers of lies,_ misconstruing the ways of providence.
Job 13:10 , _He will surely reprove you,_ though under a specious veil
you accept of persons.
Job 13:12. _Your remembrances are lik...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly
to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him
(WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS; Job 13:4) and misrepresented God (vv. J...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED_
I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not
inferior to that of his friends (Job 13:1).
“Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to mai...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2
The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1;
forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's
argument, that all results, whether...
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Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now
what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely
I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
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2 Corinthians 5:1; Exodus 17:14; Genesis 18:27; Genesis 2:7; Isaiah
26:14; Job 18:17; Job 4:19; Proverbs 10:7; Psalms 102:12; Psalms
109:15;...
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Remembrance — Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the
consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending God.
Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and unprofitable....