Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
To the worm
General references
Bible References
Corruption
Job 21:32
He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
Psalm 16:10
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
Psalm 49:9
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Acts 2:27
For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Acts 13:34
And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.
1 Corinthians 15:42
So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:
To the worm
Job 19:26
And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Job 24:20
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
Isaiah 14:11
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
General references
Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Isaiah 38:10
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.