Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 17 connects to 10 cross-references. Job laments that his spirit is broken, his days extinguished, and his grave is ready. He challenges his friends to stake their pledge with him before God and reproaches their failure to understand. He describes how the righteous are appalled …
Other Translations
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;
To corruption I have called: --`Thou <FI>art<Fi> my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Cross References
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, …
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be …
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said …
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his …
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness …