Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The members of his body shall be devoured. The first-born of death shall devour his body-parts.
New American Standard Bible
The firstborn of death
King James Version
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Holman Bible
death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.
International Standard Version
Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.
American Standard Version
The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea , the first-born of death shall devour his members.
Amplified
“His skin is devoured by disease;
The firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] consumes his limbs.
Bible in Basic English
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
Darby Translation
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
Julia Smith Translation
It shall devour the bars of his skin: the first-born of death shall devour his bars.
King James 2000
It shall devour patches of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
Modern King James verseion
It shall devour the parts of his skin; the first-born of death consumes his parts.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members.
NET Bible
It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
New Heart English Bible
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
The Emphasized Bible
Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;
Webster
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
World English Bible
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
Youngs Literal Translation
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
Themes
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently marked by terror
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
12 His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side. 13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The first-born of death shall devour his body-parts. 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.
Genesis 49:3
Reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol when once there is rest in the dust.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Zechariah 14:12
And this shall be the plague with which LORD will smite all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and the
Revelation 6:8
And behold, a green horse, and he who sits on top of it. His name was Death, and Hades followed with him. And authority was given to him over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with starvation, and with what is d