Job 25:6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then Job answered: