Quotes About Legacy

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ëWhere is he?í

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

So I thought: ëI will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

And so Job died, old and full of years.

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.

His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.

Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.