Job 17:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction. 28 You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face. 29 My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today. 30 But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king, 31 He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David. 35 Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction. 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction: 37 But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life. 54 But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
  • Job 21:26 : 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

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  • Job 17:15-16
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    15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

    16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Job 17:13
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    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 17:1
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    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Job 7:5-6
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    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    71%

    17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Job 10:18-19
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    70%

    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

  • Lam 3:17-19
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    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

    19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

  • Job 13:28
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    28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

  • Job 19:26
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    26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

  • Job 24:20
    69%

    20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Ps 22:6
    69%

    6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

  • Job 16:15
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    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • Job 31:8
    69%

    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

  • Job 25:6
    69%

    6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Ps 73:15
    69%

    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Job 9:31
    69%

    31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

  • Job 14:13
    69%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Job 30:19
    68%

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    68%

    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

  • Jer 20:14
    68%

    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • Job 3:16
    68%

    16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Isa 14:19
    68%

    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • Job 31:18
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    18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Lam 3:4
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    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Lam 1:20
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    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 14:3
    68%

    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Jer 3:4
    68%

    4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

  • Hos 13:14
    68%

    14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

  • Lam 3:6
    68%

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Job 19:14
    68%

    14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

  • Job 21:26
    67%

    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    67%

    18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19 All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    67%

    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Isa 14:11
    67%

    11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

  • Isa 38:10
    67%

    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

  • Job 14:17
    67%

    17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

  • Ps 51:5
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    5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • Ps 143:3
    67%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.