Job 17:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’”
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“and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To corruption I have called: --`Thou <FI>art<Fi> my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 17:14 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
- Job 21:26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- Job 21:32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
- Job 24:20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Psalms 49:9that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- Isaiah 14:11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
- Acts 2:27because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Acts 13:34In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
- 1 Corinthians 15:42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
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