Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 13:12 - New Revised Standard Version Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.
Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.
The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a reminder in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
The dead do not live; shades do not rise— because you have punished and destroyed them, and 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, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.