¹² Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

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.

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.

⁷ The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.

¹⁵ Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

¹² But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial `name' unto all generations.

¹⁶ The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:

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.