Job 17:14
If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
Cross References
Job 19:26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
Job 21:32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
Job 30:30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
Psalms 49:9Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
Acts 2:27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.
1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.
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 →