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

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.

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.

⁷ The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.

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

¹² But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

¹⁶ Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷ His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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

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."

²⁷ Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

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.