KJV King James Version
I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
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Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
WEB World English Bible
If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
ASV American Standard Version
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
To corruption I have called:—‘Thou art my father.’ ‘My mother’ and ‘my sister’—to the worm.
Surrounding context — Job 17
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
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Psalm 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Job 24:20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.Job 21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.Psalm 49:9That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Acts 2:27-31Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.1 Corinthians 15:53-54For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.1 Corinthians 15:42So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:Job 21:32-33Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.Isaiah 14:11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.Acts 13:34-37And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.Job 19:26And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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