12 Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,