Job 17:14
If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Cross References
Job 19:26And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see God;
Job 21:32For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
Job 30:30My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 49:9(49-10) That he should still live alway, that he should not see the pit.
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 →