Job 25:6
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How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

How much less, etc.

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

Context
Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous
5Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. 6How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Job 26:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Psalm 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

Lexicon
how much less
אַ֭ף (’ap̄)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

man,
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind

who is but a maggot,
רִמָּ֑ה (rim·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7415: A maggot

and the son
וּבֶן־ (ū·ḇen-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

of man,
אָ֝דָ֗ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: Ruddy, a human being

who is but a worm!”
תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃ (tō·w·lê·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8438: The crimson-grub, of the color, from it, cloths dyed therewith


Additional Translations
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!

How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, which is a worm!

How much less man, that is a worm; and the son of man, who is a worm?

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
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