15 Bible Verses about Maggots

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

Your pride is brought down [to] Sheol, [and] the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.

You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress [them], but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.

So God appointed a worm {at daybreak} the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.

But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left [some] of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it.

My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].

[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," {declares} Yahweh, "and your redeemer [is] the holy one of Israel.

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

'where their worm does not die and the fire is not extinguished.'