Job 25:6
Good News Translation
Then what about a human being, that worm, that insect? What is a human life worth in God's eyes?

New Revised Standard Version
how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”

Contemporary English Version
So how can we humans, when we are merely worms?

New American Bible
How much less a human being, who is but a worm, a mortal, who is only a maggot?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

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How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?

How much less, etc.

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Isaiah 41:14 Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

Context
Bildad: Man Cannot Be Righteous
5Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. 6How much more is man than rottenness and the son of man than a worm?
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Job 26:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Psalm 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.

Job 25:5
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