Job 17:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29 Men [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, [now] no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another [psalm], Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
  • Job 21:26 : 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:

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