Job 13:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
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.

King James Bible
Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Hebrew
Your maxims
זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם (ziḵ·rō·nê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2146: Memorial, remembrance

are proverbs
מִשְׁלֵי־ (miš·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

of ashes;
אֵ֑פֶר (’ê·p̄er)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 665: Ashes

your defenses
לְגַבֵּי־ (lə·ḡab·bê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

are defenses
גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃ (gab·bê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

of clay.
חֹ֝֗מֶר (ḥō·mer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2563: A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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