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
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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 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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:14
Verse Info
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?
Phrases
Names
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;