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Job 17:14
14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘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.
- 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,’
- New Living Translation (NLT)What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Context of Job 17:14
12turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near. 13If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness, if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’ 15where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me? 16Will it go down to the gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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לַשַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י לָֽרִמָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:14
- Job 21:32They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.
- Psalms 16:10because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
- Psalms 49:9so that they should live on forever and not see decay.
- Acts 2:27because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.
- Acts 13:34God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to decay. As God has said, “ ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
- 1 Corinthians 15:42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;
- Job 19:26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
- Job 24:20The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
- Isaiah 14:11All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms 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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