Job 17:14 · KJV
“I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}”
— Job 17:14
If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17 — Context
They change the night into day: the light {is} short because of darkness. {short: Heb. near}
13If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}
15And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when {our} rest together {is} in the dust.
Cross References
Psalms 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal {must} put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:42
So also {is} the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
Acts 13:34-37
And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, {now} no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. {mercies: Gr. holy, or just things: which word the Septuagint in many places, uses for that which is in the Hebrew, mercies}
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.
Acts 2:27-31
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.