If I cry ¹  to corruption, ²  ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

biblegateway Job 17:14

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

and say to the Pit: You are my father, and to the worm: My mother or my sister,

if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘You are my mother and sister,’

biblegateway Job 17:14

if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister’,

if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,'

bibleoremus Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

if I call the grave my father and the worm my mother or my sister,

biblegateway Job 17:14

If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’

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

biblegateway Job 17:14

If I cry ¹  to corruption, ²  ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

¹ tn This is understood because the conditional clauses seem to run to the apodosis in v. 15.

² tn The word שַׁחַת (shakhat) may be the word “corruption” from a root שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) or a word “pit” from שׁוּחַ (shuakh, “to sink down”). The same problem surfaces in Ps 16:10, where it is parallel to “Sheol.” E. F. Sutcliffe, The Old Testament and the Future Life, 76ff., defends the meaning “corruption.” But many commentators here take it to mean “the grave” in harmony with “Sheol.” But in this verse “worms” would suggest “corruption” is better.