12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
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.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1 , 2 . They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye…
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