Job 13:12

Remembrances. Literally, “memorials,” here memorial sentences, pithy sayings or maxims. The quotations from the wise men of old are worth no more than ashes. Bodies. Heb. gabbim, anything curved, hence applied to the back of a man (Ps. 129:3). Other meanings are “mound” (Eze. 16:24, 31, 39), “a convex projection [of a shield],” translated “bosses” (Job 15:26), or bulwarks, breastworks, as probably here. Job seems to be ridiculing the arguments of his friends, which he characterizes as breastworks of clay.