Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’ New Living Translation What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister? English Standard Version if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ Berean Standard Bible and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ King James Bible I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. New King James Version If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ New American Standard Bible If I call to the grave, ‘You are my father’; To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’; NASB 1995 If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’ To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’ NASB 1977 If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’; Legacy Standard Bible If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’; Amplified Bible If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’; And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’ Christian Standard Bible and say to corruption, “You are my father,” and to the maggot, “My mother” or “My sister,” Holman Christian Standard Bible and say to corruption: You are my father, and to the maggot: My mother or my sister, American Standard Version If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; Aramaic Bible in Plain English To destruction I cried to the worm: ‘you are my father!’, and ‘my mother and my sister!’ Brenton Septuagint Translation I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister. Contemporary English Version Then I could greet the grave as my father and say to the worms, "Hello, mother and sisters!" Douay-Rheims Bible If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. English Revised Version If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; GOD'S WORD® Translation if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,' Good News Translation I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters. International Standard Version if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!' JPS Tanakh 1917 If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', To the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister'; Literal Standard Version To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister. Majority Standard Bible and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ New American Bible If I am to say to the pit, “You are my father,” and to the worm “my mother,” “my sister,” NET Bible If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,' New Revised Standard Version if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ New Heart English Bible If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' Webster's Bible Translation I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. World English Bible if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ Young's Literal Translation To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Prepares for Death…13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?… Cross References Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. Job 21:26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both. Job 25:6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!" Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever. Treasury of Scripture I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. said. Job 21:32,33 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb… Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Psalm 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. to the worm Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Job 24:20 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. Isaiah 14:11 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. Jump to Previous Corruption Cry Earth Grave Mother Pit Sister WormJump to Next Corruption Cry Earth Grave Mother Pit Sister WormJob 17 1. Job appeals from men to God6. The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, 9. but not discourage the righteous 11. His hope is not in life, but in death Verse 14. - I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; i.e. I do not murmur; I accept my lot; I am ready to lie down with corruption, and embrace it, and call it "my father," and henceforth remain with it. The idea that the soul is still with the body in the grave, more or less closely attached to it, and sensible of its condition and changes, was widely prevalent in the ancient world. Where bodies were simply buried, the horrible imagination of a close association with corruption naturally and almost necessarily intruded itself, and led to such reflections as those of Job in this verse. It was partly to get rid of this terrible nightmare that the Egyptians were so careful to embalm the bodies of their dead, and that the Babylonians deposited them in baked clay coffins, which they filled with honey (Herod., 1:198); while others still more effectually prevented the process of corruption by cremation. The modern revival of cremation is remarkable as indicating a peculiar form of atavism or recurrence to ancient types. For many ages after the coming of Christ, men so separated between the soul and the body after death that the corruption of the grave had no horror for them. Now materialistic ideas have so far recurred, that many of those who believe the soul to live on after death are doubtful whether it may not still be attached to the body more or less, end, dreading contact with the corruption, of the latter, fall back upon the old remedy. To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. An expansion of the idea contained in the previous clause. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew and sayקָ֭רָאתִי (qā·rā·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read to corruption, לַשַּׁ֣חַת (laš·ša·ḥaṯ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7845: A pit, destruction ‘You [are] אָ֑תָּה (’āt·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you my father,’ אָ֣בִי (’ā·ḇî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1: Father and to the worm, לָֽרִמָּֽה׃ (lā·rim·māh) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7415: A maggot ‘My mother,’ אִמִּ֥י (’im·mî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) or ‘My sister,’ וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י (wa·’ă·ḥō·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 269: Sister -- a sister Links Job 17:14 NIVJob 17:14 NLT Job 17:14 ESV Job 17:14 NASB Job 17:14 KJV Job 17:14 BibleApps.com Job 17:14 Biblia Paralela Job 17:14 Chinese Bible Job 17:14 French Bible Job 17:14 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 17:14 If I have said to corruption 'You (Jb) |
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