Job 17:14

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Summary

Job 17:14

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

Corruption

To the worm

Job 19:26

Job 24:20

Isaiah 14:11

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Isaiah 38:10

Bible References

Corruption

“When he is carried to his grave,
A guard will keep watch over his tomb.

For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

So that he should live on eternally,
That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.

‘For You will not forsake me and abandon my soul to Hades (the realm of the dead),
Nor let Your Holy One undergo decay [after death].

And [as for the fact] that He raised Him from the dead, never again to return to decay [in the grave], He has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David [those blessings and mercies that were promised to him].’

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. The [human] body that is sown is perishable and mortal, it is raised imperishable and immortal.

To the worm

“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],
Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

‘Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,
Along with the music of your harps;
The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed]
And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

General references

So I turned aside and let my heart despair over all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”