Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.

New American Standard Bible

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

King James Version

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Holman Bible

and say to corruption: You are my father,
and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,

International Standard Version

if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'

A Conservative Version

if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and 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;

Amplified


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],’

Bible in Basic English

If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

Darby Translation

I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

Julia Smith Translation

I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.

King James 2000

I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.

NET Bible

If I cry to corruption, '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;'

The Emphasized Bible

To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.

Webster

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;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 23

Thou art my father
H1
אב 
'ab 
Usage: 1214

to the worm
רמּה 
Rimmah 
Usage: 7

Thou art my mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

13 If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. 14 To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm. 15 And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?



Cross References

Psalm 16:10

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Job 13:28

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

Job 19:26

And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

Job 21:26

Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

Job 21:32-33

And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.

Job 24:20

Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

Job 30:30

My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

Psalm 49:9

And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

Isaiah 14:11

Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

Acts 2:27-31

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

Acts 13:34-37

And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

1 Corinthians 15:42

So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

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