Verse 14

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

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,