Job 13:12

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

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Job 4:19

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

Job 18:17

Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O Lord, abide forever,
And Your name to all generations.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

Proverbs 10:7

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

Isaiah 26:14

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

General references

Bible References

Remembrances

Job 18:17
Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
Exodus 17:14
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Psalm 34:16
The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 102:12
But You, O Lord, abide forever,
And Your name to all generations.
Psalm 109:15
Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 26:14
The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

Ashes

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

To bodies

Job 4:19
‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

General references

Job 18:17
Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.