'Worm' in the Bible

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

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],’

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

“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].

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

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.

“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.

“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.”

“Then they will go forth and lookUpon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] menWho 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.”