¹² Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
    your defenses are defenses of clay.^(A)

¹⁴ The dead do not live;
    shades do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them
    and wiped out all memory of them.^(A)

⁷ The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.^(A)

¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually,
    and may his^[a] memory be cut off from the earth.^(A)

¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
    to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.^(A)

¹⁷ Their memory perishes from the earth,
    and they have no name in the street.^(A)

¹⁹ how much more those who live in houses of clay,
    whose foundation is in the dust,
    who are crushed like a moth.^(A)