Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
Avraham answered, *See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
*Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?*
Iyov again took up his parable, and said,
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
But you, LORD, will abide forever; your renown endures to all generations.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
The LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
The LORD said to Moshe, *Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of `Amalek from under the sky.*
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.