27 Bible Verses about worms

But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man;
I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.

where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out.

“Then they will go forth and look
Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men
Who have transgressed against Me;
For their worm (maggot) will not die,
And their fire will not go out;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”

‘Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,
Along with the music of your harps;
The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed]
And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

How much less man, that maggot,
And the son of man, that worm!”

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

He also gave their crops to the grasshopper,
And the fruit of their labor to the locust.

“Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death],
Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, and whatever has many feet among all things that swarm on the ground, you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

They shall lick the dust like a serpent;
Like crawling things of the earth
They shall come trembling out of their fortresses and hiding places.
They shall turn and come with fear and dread to the Lord our God
And they shall be afraid and stand in awe before You [O Lord].

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.]

But God prepared a worm when morning dawned the next day, and it attacked the plant and it withered.

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.]

And at once an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give God the glory [and instead permitted himself to be worshiped], and he was eaten by worms and died [five days later].

But they did not listen to Moses, and some left a supply of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul and rotten; and Moses was angry with them.

“And I will compensate you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust—
My great army which I sent among you.

“Together they lie down in the dust,
And the worms cover them.

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.

“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”

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],’

For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,

They put it aside until morning, as Moses told them, and it did not become foul nor was it wormy.

The assembled people kept shouting, “It is the voice of a god and not of a man!”

While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

“Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will consider you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,