Job 25:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”

Cross References

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 26:1

Then Job answered:

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Job 7:17

What are humans, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,

Psalm 22:6

But I am a worm and not human, scorned by others and despised by the people.

Isaiah 41:14

Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.