¹² Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

⁷ And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

¹⁴ The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

⁷ The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

¹⁵ Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

¹² But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.

²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

¹ For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.