15 Bible Verses about Maggots

How much less a mortal who is a creeping thing? Or a son of the earth-born who is a worm?

Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet - worms!

Vineyards, shalt thou plant, and dress, - but wine, shalt thou not drink, neither shalt thou gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

But God appointed a worm, at the uprisings of the dawn, the next day, - and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

But they hearkened not unto Moses, but certain men left thereof until morning, and it swarmed with worms and become loathsome, - and Moses was wroth with them.

So they put it by until the morning, as Moses had commanded, - and it gave no unpleasant odour, neither was there a worm, therein.

My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:

To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.

And, instantly, there smote him, a messenger of the Lord, because he gave not the glory unto God; and, becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

Then shall they go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men who had been trespassing against me - For, their worm, shall not die, And, their fire, shall not be quenched; So shall they become an abhorrence to all flesh.

Do not fear, Thou worm Jacob, Ye men of Israel, - I, have become thy helper, Declareth Yahweh, And thy redeemer The Holy One of Israel.

But, I, am a worm and no one, a reproach of men, and despised of a people;

Where, their worm, dieth not, and, the fire, is not quenched,