Exalt her, and she will set thee on high, she will bring thee to honour, when thou dust embrace her:

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.

The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.