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Job 17:14

Death and loss

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.

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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BSB
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
KJV
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
WEB
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
ASV
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
DARBY
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
BLB
[if] to the Pit I call out, ‘You are My father,’ or to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister’—
ÅB
roper til graven: Du er min far, til makken: Du er min mor og min søster,
OTB
Jeg roper til graven, ‘Du er min far’;
Til marken, ‘min mor og min søster.’
B1930
roper til graven: Du er min far, til makken: Du er min mor og min søster,

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