Job 17:14

“I have said to corruption, thou [art] my father, etc.] Not to the corruptible seed, of which he was begotten; nor to the corruption or purulent matter of his boils and ulcers, and the worms his flesh was now clothed with, (<180705>Job 7:5); but to that corruption his body would turn to in the grave, lying long enough to see it, which Christ’s body did not, (<191610>Psalm 16:10); that is, “to the pit of corruption” f681, as it may be rendered, meaning the grave, so called because in it dead bodies corrupt and putrefy: in houses are families consisting of various persons, of different relations, who dwell together in friendship and harmony, very lovingly and familiarly, as father and mother,…”

“Thou art my father, &c.--expressing most intimate connection (Pro 7:4). His diseased state made him closely akin to the grave and worm.”

“I have said - Margin, cried, or called. The sense is, “I say,” or “I thus address the grave.” To corruption - The word used here (שׁחת shachath) means properly a pit, or pit-fall, Psalms 7:15; Psalms 9:15; a cistern, or a ditch, Job 9:31; or the sepulchre, or grave, Psalms 30:9; Job 33:18, Job 33:30. The Septuagint renders it here by θανάτον thanaton - death. Jerome (Vulgate), putredini dixi. According to Gesenius (Lex), the word never has the sense of corruption. Schultens, however, Rosenmuller, and others, understand it in the sense of corruption or putrefaction. This accords, certainly, with the other hemistich, and better constitutes a parallelism with the “worm” than the word “grave”…”

“Corruption - Heb. to the pit of corruption, the grave. Father - I am near a - kin to thee, and thou wilt receive and keep me in thy house, as parents do their children. Job 17:15”

“17:14 my father . . . mother . . . sister: This bitter parody of a family reunion in a graveyard shows how Job envisioned his impending death.”

“said: Heb. cried, or, called corruption: Job 21:32, Job 21:33; Psa 16:10, Psa 49:9; Act 2:27-31, Act 13:34-37; Co1 15:42, Co1 15:53, Co1 15:54 to the worm: Job 19:26, Job 24:20; Isa 14:11 Job 17:15”