New King James Version
Job 17:14
14If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and 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 Living Translation (NLT)What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Context of Job 17:14
12They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness. 13If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness, If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’ 15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who can see it? 16Will they go down to the gates of Sheol? Shall we have rest together in 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 21:32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, And a vigil kept over the tomb.
- Psalms 16:10For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
- Psalms 49:9That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.
- Acts 2:27For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
- Acts 13:34And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the sure mercies of David.’
- 1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
- Job 19:26And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
- Job 24:20The womb should forget him, The worm should feed sweetly on him; He should be remembered no more, And wickedness should be broken like a tree.
- Isaiah 14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under 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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