Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

New American Standard Bible

His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

King James Version

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Holman Bible

Parts of his skin are eaten away;
death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.

International Standard Version

Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.

A Conservative Version

The members of his body shall be devoured. The first-born of death shall devour his body-parts.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

of his skin
עור 
`owr 
Usage: 99

בּכור 
B@kowr 
Usage: 117

of death
מות 
Maveth 
Usage: 156

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

Fausets

Watsons

Context Readings

Bildad's Second Speech

12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; 13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; 14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

Cross References

Isaiah 14:30

Then shall feed the firstborn of the poor, And the needy, in confidence lie down, - And I will kill with famine thy root, And thy residue, shall be slain.

Genesis 49:3

Reuben, my first-born, thou, My vigour, and the first-fruit of my strength, - Pre-eminence of elevation and pre-eminence of power:

Job 17:16

With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!

Jonah 2:6

To the roots of the mountains, went I down, As for the earth, her bars, were about me, age-abidingly, - Then didst thou bring up - out of the pit - my life, O Yahweh my God.

Zechariah 14:12

And, this, shall be the plague wherewith Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have made war against Jerusalem, - his flesh, shall be made to rot, while he is standing upon his feet, and, his eyes, shall rot in their sockets, and, his tongue, shall rot in their mouth;

Revelation 6:8

And I saw, and lo! a livid horse, - and he that was sitting thereupon had for a name, Death, and, Hades, was following with him; and there was given unto them authority over the fourth of the earth, to slay with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

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