EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 17:14
14I will say to the grave, “You are my father.” I will say to the worms that eat me, “Hello, my mother. Hello, my sister.”
Job 17:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
- New International Version (NIV)if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
- English Standard Version (ESV)if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'
- New King James Version (NKJV)If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
Context of Job 17:14
12My friends say, “It is day”, when it is still night. They do not know the difference between light and dark. 13The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark. I will say to the grave, “You are my father.” I will say to the worms that eat me, “Hello, my mother. Hello, my sister.” 15I can hope for nothing that is better than that. No one can find anything better for me. 16When I go to the world of dead people, all my hope will have finished. Everything that I had hoped for will lie with me in the dust.’
Read all of Job 17Job 17:14 word by word
לַשַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י לָֽרִמָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:14
- Job 21:32When a wicked person dies, people bury him with honour. Guards watch over his grave.
- Psalms 16:10You, Lord, will not leave me in the deep hole of death. As one who belongs to you, you will not leave my body to spoil in the grave.
- Psalms 49:9So nobody can live for ever. Everyone goes to their grave one day.
- Acts 2:27When I die, you will not leave me in Hades, the place for dead people. You will not let anything destroy the body of your Holy One.
- Acts 13:34God caused Jesus to live again so that nothing would destroy his body. He will not die again. This is what God said to our ancestors: “I will surely help you with good things, just like I promised to King David.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:42It is like that when God raises a dead person to a new life. We bury the dead person's body in the ground and it becomes spoiled. But when God raises it up, it will live for ever.
- Job 19:26Illness may completely destroy my skin. But after that happens, I know that in this body I will see God.
- Job 24:20Their mothers soon forget them. Worms eat their bodies. No one remembers those wicked people. They are like dead trees that people have cut down.
- Isaiah 14:11Your great power has now come down low, into the deep hole of death. People no longer praise you with their harps. Now you will lie on a bed of maggots. A blanket of worms will cover you.
Commentaries on Job 17:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14I have said to corruption - I came from a corrupted stock, and I must go to corruption again. The Hebrew might be thus rendered: To the ditch I have called, Thou art my father. To the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. I am in the nearest state of affinity to dissolution and corruption: I may well call them my nearest relations, as I shall soon be blended with them.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14I have said - Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus address the grave.” To corruption - The word used here (שׁחת shachath ) means properly a pit, or pit-fall, Psalm 7:15; Psalm 9:15; a cistern, or a ditch, Job 9:31; or the sepulchre, or grave, Psalm 30:9; Job 33:18, Job 33:30. The Septuagint renders it here by ́ thanaton - death. Jerome (Vulgate), putredini dixi. According to Gesenius (Lex), the word never has the sense of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14my father … mother … sister: This sad imitation of a family gathering in a cemetery shows how Job imagined his coming death.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Thou art my father, &c.--expressing most intimate connection (Pr 7:4). His diseased state made him closely akin to the grave and worm.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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