“I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.”
"If I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'You are my mother and my sister.'" Job identifies himself with decay and death. He claims kinship with the worm, with the pit itself. The verse expresses radical alienation from life and transformation into the substance of death.
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