Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 13:12 - 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, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has 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 dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy 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.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that 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.
They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end thou hast visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance 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.