Job 13:12
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Gen 18:27 : 27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
- Exod 17:14 : 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
- 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 shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
- Ps 34:16 : 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
- Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
- Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isa 26:14 : 14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
- 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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8 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
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11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
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15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
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11 You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
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3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
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11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
12 The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
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19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
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11 His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
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13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
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7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
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16 For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
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14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
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7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen; His bones that were not seen stick out.
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21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
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19 But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
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26 They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.
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14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
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14 It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.
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28 Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to the earth.
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15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
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10 All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us?
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4 You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
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5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
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16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;
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3 Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
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30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
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4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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20 As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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38 When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?
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6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I am also formed out of the clay.
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12 Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?
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19 Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
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32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
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16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
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5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.