Job 13:12
Hebrew Text— Job 13:12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
“Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction.”
When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
of Syria, of Moab, of the children of Ammon, of the Philistines, of Amalek, and of the plunder of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.
“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says Yahweh. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.” ’
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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.
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
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.”
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
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.