Job 17:14
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English Standard Version
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

New American Standard Bible
If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and say to corruption: You are my father, and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,

International Standard Version
if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!'

NET Bible
If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'

GOD'S WORD® Translation
if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,'

King James 2000 Bible
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

American King James Version
I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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

Young's Literal Translation
To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.
Lexicon
I have said
qara'  (kaw-raw')
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
to corruption
shachath  (shakh'-ath)
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction -- corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Thou art my father
'ab  (awb)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-.
to the worm
rimmah  (rim-maw')
a maggot (as rapidly bred), literally or figuratively -- worm.
Thou art my mother
'em  (ame)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively) -- dam, mother, parting.
and my sister
'achowth  (aw-khoth')
a sister (used very widely, literally and figuratively) -- (an-)other, sister, together.
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