Verse 14

and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,

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  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You allow Your faithful one to see decay.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 for the redemption of their soul is costly, and it ceases forever—
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Beneath you is a bed of maggots, and worms cover you.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 because You will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence. 29 “Fellow Israelites, I can confidently say to you that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God had sworn an oath to him that He would set one of his descendants on his throne, 31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 And concerning the fact that He raised Him from the dead, no longer to return to corruption, He said, 'I will give you the holy and faithful promises made to David.' 35 So it is also stated elsewhere: 'You will not let Your Holy One see decay.' 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, fell asleep, was buried with his ancestors, and saw decay. 37 But He whom God raised did not see decay.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'
  • Job 21:26 : 26 They lie down together in the dust, and worms cover them.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 He is carried to the graves, and a watch is kept over his tomb. 33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.