Job 17:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:10 : 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay. 28 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’ 29 “Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, 31 David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way:‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’ 35 Therefore he also says in another psalm,‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’ 36 For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay, 37 but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.
  • 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 It is the same 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 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
  • Job 21:26 : 26 Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound, 33 The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So I waste 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 will see God,

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    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

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  • Job 17:13
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    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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  • Job 7:5-6
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    5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

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  • Job 10:18-19
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  • Lam 3:17-19
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    17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

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  • Job 13:28
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    28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • Job 19:26
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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • Ps 22:6
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    6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

  • Job 16:15
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    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

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    8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

  • Job 25:6
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    6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • Job 9:31
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    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

  • Job 14:13
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  • Job 30:19
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    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

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  • Jer 20:14
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    14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Isa 14:19
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    19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

  • Job 31:18
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    18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

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  • Lam 1:20
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    20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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    4Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 19:14
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    14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

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    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

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    6I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    67%

    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

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    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Isa 14:11
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    11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

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    17My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.

  • Ps 51:5
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    5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.