Job 17:14
I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
13Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
15Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
Cross References
Job 19:26And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
Job 21:32Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
Job 30:30My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
Psalms 49:9That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.
Acts 2:27Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.
1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The bodie is sowen in corruption, and is raysed 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 →