World English Bible
Job 17:14
“If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;”
Verse in context — Job 17
12
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;
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where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?
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