KJV ORIGINAL
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Your wise sayings are as worthless as ashes, and your arguments are as fragile as clay pots.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is telling his friends that their advice and arguments are worthless and easily broken.
📚 Historical Context
Job is responding to his three friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar) who have been trying to explain his suffering by suggesting he must have sinned. In ancient times, ashes represented what remained after something was destroyed, and clay was known to be easily broken. Job is using these metaphors to show how weak and useless their traditional wisdom has proven to be in the face of his inexplicable suffering.
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