Holy Scripture
Job 13:12
A church father on this verse
“Your remembrances are like unto ashes. All that are confounded to this present state of being by an earthly temper of mind, mean, by all that they do, to leave the remembrance of themselves to the world. Some in the toils of war, some in the towering walls of edifices, some in eloquent books of this world's lore, they…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, And your body like a body of clay.
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In context
10He will not reprove you at all the less: But if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
11Shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, And terror from him fall upon you?
— Job 13:12 —
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
14While I may take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand.