Job 17:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father: to worms, My mother and my sister.

Job 17:14 Cross References

Job 13:28

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

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in 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 womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, 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 again.

Psalm 16:10

For you do not give me up to Sheol or let your faithful one see the Pit.

Psalm 49:9

that one should live on forever and never see the Pit.

Isaiah 14:11

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

1 Corinthians 15:42

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