King James Version (KJV)
Job 17:14
“I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.”
Verse in context — Job 17
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 my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
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