Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?
“Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.
The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
And Job continued his discourse:
Job continued his discourse:
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.
May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
The name of the righteous is used in blessings, but the name of the wicked will rot.
They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.