Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
if I have said to corruption, Thou are 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!'
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;'
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 look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, 14 if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister, 15 where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 16:10
For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption.
Job 13:28
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 19:26
And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
Job 21:32-33
Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.
Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Job 30:30
My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalm 49:9
that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption.
Isaiah 14:11
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Acts 2:27-31
Because thou will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will thou give thy Holy man to see decay.
Acts 13:34-37
And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David.
1 Corinthians 15:42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in the perishable, it is raised in imperishability.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this perishable must put on imperishability, and this mortal put on immortality.