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Job 17:14

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

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  1. Job 17:12

    They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

  2. Job 17:13

    If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  3. Job 17:15

    And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  4. Job 17:16

    They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.