Job 17:14

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

Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.

That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.

But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.

Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.

And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, And worms cover thee.

Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.

I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.