Job 17:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘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

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

Job 24:20

The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Job 25:6

how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”

Job 30:30

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

Psalm 16:10

For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit.

Psalm 49:9

that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.