Job 17:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Thy pompe is brought downe to ye graue, and the sounde of thy violes: the worme is spred vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption. 28 Thou hast shewed me the waies of life, & shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenance. 29 Men and brethren, I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid, that hee is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with vs vnto this day. 30 Therefore, seeing hee was a Prophet, and knewe that God had sworne with an othe to him, that of the fruite of his loynes hee woulde raise vp Christ concerning the flesh, to set him vpon his throne, 31 Hee knowing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule shoulde not bee left in graue, neither his flesh shoulde see corruption.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 Nowe as concerning that he raised him vp from the dead, no more to returne to corruption, he hath said thus, I wil giue you the holy things of Dauid, which are faithfull. 35 Wherefore hee sayeth also in another place, Thou wilt not suffer thine Holy one to see corruption. 36 Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption. 37 But he whom God raised vp, sawe no corruption.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The bodie is sowen in corruption, and is raysed in incorruption.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortall must put on immortalitie. 54 So when this corruptible hath put on incorruption, and this mortall hath put on immortalitie, then shalbe brought to passe the saying that is written, Death is swallowed vp into victorie.
  • Job 21:26 : 26 They shal sleepe both in the dust, & the wormes shal couer them.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape. 33 The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shal feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remebred, & the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.

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