New Revised Standard Version
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom and arguments will blow away like dust.

New American Bible
Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications mounds of clay.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

remembrances

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Exodus 17:14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue; for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.

Psalm 34:16 But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 102:12 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

Psalm 109:15 May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth:

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Isaiah 26:14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

ashes

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

to bodies

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.