Job 17:14

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
  • Ps 49:9 : 9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. 28 You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.' 29 "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was 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 about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
  • Acts 13:34-37 : 34 "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.' 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.' 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
  • 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 But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
  • Job 21:26 : 26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were 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. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

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    15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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  • Job 17:13
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    13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • Job 17:1
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  • Job 7:5-6
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    5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

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  • Job 10:18-19
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  • Lam 3:17-19
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    17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

    18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

    19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Job 13:28
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    28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Job 19:26
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    26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

  • Job 24:20
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    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Ps 22:6
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    6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

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

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    8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Job 25:6
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    6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

  • Ps 73:15
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    15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • Job 9:31
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    31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 14:13
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    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 30:19
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    19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

    11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

  • Jer 20:14
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    14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

  • Job 3:16
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    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Isa 14:19
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    19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

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    18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

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    4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

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    20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

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    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

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    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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    4 Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'

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    14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

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    14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

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    26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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    6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

    19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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    11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

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    17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

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    5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.