Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
New American Standard Bible
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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],’
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 am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
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.
Job 13:28
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Job 19:26
And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Job 21:26
Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
Job 21:32-33
He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
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.
Job 30:30
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Psalm 49:9
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
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.
Acts 2:27-31
For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Acts 13:34-37
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:
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.