Verse 12

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
  • Exod 17:14 : 14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.
  • Ps 34:16 : 16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial [name] unto all generations.
  • Ps 109:15 : 15 Let them be before Jehovah 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 shall rot.
  • Isa 26:14 : 14 [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.