'Worms' in the Bible
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
The womb forgets them;worms feed on them;they are remembered no more.So injustice is broken like a tree.
How much less is man, who is only a maggot, or a man's children, who are only worms!"
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last forever, and my salvation to all generations.
“And I will scatter your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].
I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.
In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.
In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.