Job 17:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַשַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י לָֽרִמָּֽה׃

Transliteration

to-the-šaḥaṯ qārāʾṯî ʾāḇî you-are ʾimmî wa-ʾăḥōṯî to-the-rimmâ

Grammar Details

• *šaḥaṯ*: noun, feminine singular - pit/grave/destruction
• *qārāʾṯî*: Qal perfect 1st person singular - I have called
• *ʾāḇî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my father
• *ʾimmî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my mother
• *wa-ʾăḥōṯî*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - and my sister
• *rimmâ*: noun, feminine singular - worm/maggot

Word Meanings

• *šaḥaṯ*: pit/grave/corruption/destruction
• *qārāʾṯî*: I have called/named/proclaimed
• *ʾāḇî*: my father
• *ʾimmî*: my mother
• *wa-ʾăḥōṯî*: and my sister
• *rimmâ*: worm/maggot/decay

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

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

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, `Thou art' my mother, and my sister;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’

Referenced Verses

• Ps 16:10 : 10 For You will not leave my soul in hell; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
• Ps 49:9 : 9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
• Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
• Acts 2:27-31 : 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.' 29 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you about the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 He, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh 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 this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to 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. The body 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 has put on incorruption, and this mortal has 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 lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.
• Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall follow him, as countless before him.
• Job 24:20 : 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like 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, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
• Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God,