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To the maggot, ‘my mother and my sister’;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/job/17.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/job/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/job/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’; And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/job/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and say to corruption, “You are my father,” and to the maggot, “My mother” or “My sister,”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/job/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and say to corruption: You are my father, and to the maggot: My mother or my sister, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/job/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then I could greet the grave as my father and say to the worms, "Hello, mother and sisters!" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/job/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will call the grave my father, and the worms that eat me I will call my mother and my sisters. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/job/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and sister,'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/job/17.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />if I call out to the Pit, 'You're my father!' or say to the worm, 'My mother!' or 'My sister!'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/job/17.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,' </div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="classic" id="classic"></a><div class="vheading"><b>Classic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/job/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, Thou <i>art</i> my father: to the worm, <i>Thou art</i> my mother, and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/job/17.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />If I say to corruption, ‘You <i>are</i> my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You <i>are</i> my mother and my sister,’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kj2000/job/17.htm">King James 2000 Bible</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/job/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/akjv/job/17.htm">American King James Version</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/afv/job/17.htm">A Faithful Version</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, 'You <i>are</i> my father;' to the worm, 'My mother and my sister!'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/job/17.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="early" id="early"></a><div class="vheading"><b>Early Modern</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/geneva/job/17.htm">Geneva Bible of 1587</a></span><br />I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bishops/job/17.htm">Bishops' Bible of 1568</a></span><br />I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/coverdale/job/17.htm">Coverdale Bible of 1535</a></span><br />I call corrupcion my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my sister.</div></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><a name="literal" id="literal"></a><div class="vheading"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/job/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/job/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="catholic" id="catholic"></a><div class="vheading"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/job/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="aramaic" id="aramaic"></a><div class="vheading"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/job/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />To destruction I cried to the worm: ‘you are my father!’, and ‘my mother and my sister!’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/job/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, You are my mother and my sister.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="otnt" id="otnt"></a><div class="vheading"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/job/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', To the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/job/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption <i>to be</i> my mother and sister.</div></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr height="600"><td align="center"> <div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> <div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="strongs" id="strongs"></a><div class="vheading">Parallel Strong's</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb-strongs/job/17.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></span><br /><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121: qā·rā·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To call, proclaim, read. A primitive root; to call out to.">and say</a> <a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="7845: laš·ša·ḥaṯ (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A pit. From shuwach; a pit; figuratively, destruction.">to corruption,</a> <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’āt·tāh (Pro-2ms) -- You (masc. sing.). ">‘You are</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ā·ḇî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">my father,’</a> <a href="/hebrew/7415.htm" title="7415: lā·rim·māh (Prep-l, Art:: N-fs) -- A worm. From ramam in the sense of breading; a maggot, literally or figuratively.">and to the worm,</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">‘My mother,’</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269: wa·’ă·ḥō·ṯî (Conj-w:: N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Sister. Irregular feminine of 'ach; a sister (like 'Ezrachiy), literally and figuratively).">or ‘My sister,’</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylts/job/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="7845. shachath (shakh'-ath) -- a pit">To corruption</a><a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121. qara' (kaw-raw') -- to call, proclaim, read"> I have called</a><a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859. 'attah (at-taw') -- you (masc. sing.)">:—‘Thou</a><a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1. 'ab (awb) -- father"> [art] my father</a><a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517. 'em (ame) -- a mother">.’ ‘My mother</a><a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269. 'achowth (aw-khoth') -- sister">’ and ‘my sister</a><a href="/hebrew/7415.htm" title="7415. rimmah (rim-maw') -- a worm">’—to the worm.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><b><a href="/hcsb/job/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></b></span><br /><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="קרא_1 vqp1cs 7121">and say</a> <a href="/strongs.htm" title="לְ Pp"> to</a> <a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="שַׁחַת ncfsa 7845"> corruption</a>: <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="אַתָּה pi2ms 859">You</a> <a href="/strongs.htm" title="ִי psn1cs"> are my</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="אָב ncmsc 1"> father</a>, <a href="/strongs.htm" title="לְ Pp">and to</a> <a href="/strongs.htm" title="הַ Pa"> the</a> <a href="/hebrew/7415.htm" title="רִמָּה ncfsa 7415"> maggot</a>: <a href="/strongs.htm" title="ִי psn1cs">My</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="אֵם ncfsc 517"> mother</a> <a href="/strongs.htm" title="וְ Pc"> or</a> <a href="/strongs.htm" title="ִי psn1cs"> my</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="אָחֹות ncfsc 269"> sister</a>, </span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nas/job/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br /><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121. qara' (kaw-raw') -- to call, proclaim, read">If I call</a> <a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="7845. shachath (shakh'-ath) -- a pit">to the pit,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1. 'ab (awb) -- father">'You are my father;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7415.htm" title="7415. rimmah (rim-maw') -- a worm">To the worm,</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517. 'em (ame) -- a mother">'my mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269. 'achowth (aw-khoth') -- sister">and my sister';</a> </span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjvs/job/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/7121.htm" title="7121. qara' (kaw-raw') -- to call, proclaim, read">I have said</a> <a href="/hebrew/7845.htm" title="7845. shachath (shakh'-ath) -- a pit">to corruption,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1. 'ab (awb) -- father">Thou [art] my father:</a> <a href="/hebrew/7415.htm" title="7415. rimmah (rim-maw') -- a worm">to the worm,</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517. 'em (ame) -- a mother">[Thou art] my mother,</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269. 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