Job 17:14
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
In Context
13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Cross References
Job 19:26And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Job 21:32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
Job 30:30My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Psalms 49:9\49:8\(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)
Acts 2:27For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
1 Corinthians 15:42So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:
Matthew Henry on Job 17:11-16
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now… Read the whole commentary →