Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
BSB
ASV
How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
KJV
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
How much more is man rottenness, and the son of man a worm? As if it were in plain words; 'If those very persons also cannot be void of contagion, who amidst the darkness of the present life shine bright by virtuous attainments, with what guilt of wickedness are they bound, who still live after the flesh?
Worm - Mean, and vile, and impotent; proceeding from corruption, and returning to it. The son - For miserable man in the last branch he here puts the son of any man, to shew that this is true even of the greatest and best of men. Let us then wonder at the condescension of God, in taking such worms into covenant and communion with himself!
How much less man, that is a worm? - Or as the Targum - “How much more man, who in his life is a reptile; and the son of man, who in his death is a worm.” Almost all the versions read, “Truly man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.” The original is degradingly expressive: “Even because אנוש enosh, miserable man, is רמה rimmah, a crawling worm; and the son of Adam, who is תולעה toleah, a worm, or rather maggot, from its eating into and dividing certain substances.” - Parkhurst.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes…
For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
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Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
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But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
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Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
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By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.