Job 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
- Gen 18:27 : 27 Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),
- Exod 17:14 : 14 The LORD said to Moses,“Write this as a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in Joshua’s hearing; for I will surely wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
- Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
- Job 18:17 : 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
- Ps 34:16 : 16 But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.
- Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, O LORD, rule forever, and your reputation endures.
- Ps 109:15 : 15 May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!
- Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.
- Isa 26:14 : 14 The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.
- 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
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8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
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13“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
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16For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.
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7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
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21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
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21For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.
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14For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
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14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
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28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
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25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.
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15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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10All of them respond to you, saying:‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!
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16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
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5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
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32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,
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17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
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16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
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16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.