Job 17:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the maggot, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ If I say to the grave and corruption, You are my father, and to the worm [that feeds on decay], You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

Common English Bible

¹⁴ I’ve called corruption “my father,” the worm, “my mother and sister.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ I have said to decay and to worms: "You are my father, my mother, and my sister."

Job 17:14 Cross References

Job 13:28

A person wears out like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 19:26

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in   my flesh.

Job 21:26

But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them.

Job 24:20

The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered  no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

Job 25:6

how much less a human, who is a maggot, a son of man,  who is a worm!

Job 30:30

My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs  and then oozes.

Isaiah 14:11

Your splendour has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.’

1 Corinthians 15:42

So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown perishable, raised imperishable