“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”
"Your maxims are proverbs of ash, your defenses are defenses of clay." Job's contempt crystallizes in this image: the friends' traditional wisdom is reduced to ash—worthless, light, easily scattered. Their defenses are fragile clay constructions that cannot withstand scrutiny. This verse dismisses the entire edifice of conventional wisdom on which the friends have built their case.
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