Job 13:12

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

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  • 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.

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  • Job 10:8-9
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    8Your hands shaped me and made me, yet now You destroy me completely.

    9Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?

  • 11Wouldn't His majesty terrify you, and the dread of Him fall upon you?

  • 15all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.

  • 11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • 19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • 12I am a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more to my neighbors—a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me on the street flee from me.

  • 3Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.

    12The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.

  • 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Job 4:19-20
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    19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • 11The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • 13Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

  • 7As one plows the earth and breaks it apart, so are our bones scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • 16For you will forget your trouble, remembering it only as water that has passed by.

  • 14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

  • 7And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • 21Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

  • 21For now you have become like nothing to him; you see terror and are afraid.

  • 19but you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

  • 26They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • 14For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust.

  • 14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.

  • 28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • 25Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?

  • 15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

  • 10They all respond and say to you, 'You too have become weak as we are; you have become like us!'

  • 4You will be brought low; from the ground you will speak, and your words will come in a muffled way from the dust. Your voice will sound like that of a ghost from the earth, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

  • 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

  • 5My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • 32As for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.

  • 17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square.

  • 16Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,

  • 3Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.

  • 30They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

  • 4When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

  • 20Like a dream when one awakes, so, Lord, when You arise, You will despise their image.

  • 8Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become as dry as wood.

  • 8You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

  • 20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

  • 13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • 6Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.

  • 12When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’

  • 19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

  • 32A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! It will not be restored until the one to whom it rightfully belongs comes, and to him I will give it.

  • 16Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?

  • 5My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.