'Worm' in the Bible
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm therein.
Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes ; for the worm shall eat them.
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.