Job 17:14 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | WEB

If I have said to corruption, `You are my father;` To the worm, `My mother,` and `my sister;`

Commentaries

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

I have said—Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus addre the grave.”

To corruption—The word used here (

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

I have said to corruption, you are my father
Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corru…

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; here he shows that those who draw their comforts fro…

13th Century

Catholic

13th Century

After refuting Eliphaz's opinion, Job now gathers his previous points to demonstrate his thesis. First, he gets their attention by saying, "Therefo…

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