One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:14 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; Common English Bible I’ve called corruption “my father,” the worm, “my mother and sister.” Catholic Public Domain Version 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 If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father: to worms, My mother and my sister. |
One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.
how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
For you do not give me up to Sheol, or let your faithful one see the Pit.
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.