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

said.

Job 21:32,33 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead. . . .

Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 49:9 And shall still live unto the end.

Acts 2:27-31 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. . . .

Acts 13:34-37 And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:42,53,54 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption. . . .

to the worm

Job 19:26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Job 24:20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

Isaiah 14:11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

Context
Job Prepares for Death
13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. 14I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?…
Cross References
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

Job 13:28
Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

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

Job 30:30
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Lexicon
and say
קָ֭רָאתִי (qā·rā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

to corruption,
לַשַּׁ֣חַת (laš·ša·ḥaṯ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7845: A pit, destruction

‘You [are]
אָ֑תָּה (’āt·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

my father,’
אָ֣בִי (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

and to the worm,
לָֽרִמָּֽה׃ (lā·rim·māh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7415: A maggot

‘My mother,’
אִמִּ֥י (’im·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

or ‘My sister,’
וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י (wa·’ă·ḥō·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 269: Sister -- a sister


Additional Translations
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.

I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.
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