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Job 17:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. "

Job 17:14

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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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From This Chapter

Job 17:1

"My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."

Job 17:2

"Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?"

Job 17:3

"Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?"

Job 17:4

"For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them."

Job 17:5

"He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."

Job 17:6

"He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."

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