Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Cross References
Job 13:11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
Job 27:1Job continued his discourse:
Job 29:1And Job continued his discourse:
Treasury of Scripture
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
remembrances
Job 18:17
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Exodus 17:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Psalm 34:16
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
ashes
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
to bodies
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
