Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 18:17 - Revised Standard Version His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. American Standard Version (1901) His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. Common English Bible The memory of them will perish from the earth; they will achieve no recognition abroad. Catholic Public Domain Version Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be celebrated in the streets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let the memory of him perish from the earth: and let not his name be renowned in the streets. |
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
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.
My enemies say of me in malice: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. “May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!
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.
The Lord has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”