Devine Scripture

Job 17:14

Job chapter 17 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;

Context

v.13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

v.14This passage

v.15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 24:20

    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.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:53

    For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

  • Job 19:26

    And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

  • Isaiah 14:11

    Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

  • Job 30:30

    My skin is black, and fallethfrom me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • Psalms 49:9

    That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.