Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or '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],’
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.
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 hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,' 15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 16:10
You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
Job 13:28
So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
Job 19:26
And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
Job 21:26
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
Job 21:32-33
And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,
Job 24:20
The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
Job 30:30
My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
Psalm 49:9
so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
Isaiah 14:11
Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.
Acts 2:27-31
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
Acts 13:34-37
But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'
1 Corinthians 15:42
It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.