Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
New American Standard Bible
To the
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;
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;'
Youngs Literal Translation
To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.
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; I spread my bed in the darkness: 14 I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! 15 And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
Job 13:28
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Job 19:26
And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;
Job 21:26
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Job 21:32-33
Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
Job 24:20
The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --
Job 30:30
My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalm 49:9
That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.
Isaiah 14:11
thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, And worms cover thee.
Acts 2:27-31
for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.
Acts 13:34-37
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.
1 Corinthians 15:42
Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.