Verse 12

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Then Abraham answered, 'I have ventured to speak to the Lord, though I am but dust and ashes.
  • Exod 17:14 : 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua: 'I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.'"
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square.
  • Ps 34:16 : 16 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 My days are like a shadow that lengthens, and I wither away like grass.
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 May their sins always remain before the Lord, and may He cut off their memory from the earth.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 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.