Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
12
Calamity hungers for him and disaster catch him when he falls.
13
The firstborn of death
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 14:30
Jehovah will be a shepherd to the poor of his people and will let them live in safety. But he will send a terrible famine on you Philistines. It will not leave any of you alive.
Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my firstborn; you are my strength and the first child of my manhood. You are the proudest and strongest of all my sons.
Job 17:16
Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God?
Zechariah 14:12
The plague will be that Jehovah will strike all the peoples that have gone to war against Jerusalem! Their flesh will wither away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will wither away in their sockets, and their tongue will wither away in their mouth.
Revelation 6:8
I looked, and there was a pale horse. The name of the one who sat on him was Death. The grave followed him. Power was given to them over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with pestilence, and with the beasts of the earth.