Job 17:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 19:26

And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God:

Job 21:26

They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered: And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

Job 25:6

How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, which is a worm!

Job 30:30

My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

Psalm 16:10

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 49:9

That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

Isaiah 14:11

Thy pomp is brought down to hell, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

1 Corinthians 15:42

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: