And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
Job 13:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, Your bodies to bodies of clay. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes [valueless]; your defenses are defenses of clay [and will crumble]. American Standard Version (1901) Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay. Common English Bible Your old sayings are proverbs made of ashes, your sayings defenses made of clay. Catholic Public Domain Version Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes: and your necks shall be brought to clay. |
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, And let come on me what wilt.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Which are crushed before the moth!
But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; And thy memorial unto all generations.
Let them be before the LORD continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
The memory of the just is blessed: But the name of the wicked shall rot.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.