Job 13:12

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 of…

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…

Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.

I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them,…

This verse reads,

Your remembrances shall be proverbs of ashes,

Your defences defences of dust.

The term "remembrances" means their traditional sayings, remembered from antiquity, their maxims,…