Job 17:14
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Darby Translation
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 wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:
15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 19:26And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God;
Job 21:32Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
Job 30:30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalms 49:9That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption.
Acts 2:27for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.
1 Corinthians 15:42Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.
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 →