25 Bible Verses about worms

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

'where their worm does not die and the fire is not extinguished.'

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

Your pride is brought down [to] Sheol, [and] the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress [them], but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.

You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," {declares} Yahweh, "and your redeemer [is] the holy one of Israel.

And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on [all] fours, even any [with] numerous feet [belonging] to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they [are] detestable.

They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you.

So God appointed a worm {at daybreak} the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left [some] of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you.

They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.

My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].

For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."

[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,

And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it.

But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: '[Is] this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake,