Job 18:13
Good News Translation
A deadly disease spreads over their bodies and causes their arms and legs to rot.

New Revised Standard Version
By disease their skin is consumed, the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.

Contemporary English Version
then afterwards to be eaten alive by death itself.

New American Bible
His skin is eaten to the limbs, the firstborn of Death eats his limbs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

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Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

strength.

Job 17:16 All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

the firstborn

Genesis 49:3 Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my strength, and the beginning of my sorrow; excelling in gifts, greater in command.

Isaiah 14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.

Revelation 6:8 And behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death. And hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and with the beasts of the earth.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
12Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs. 13Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.14Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:15
Hath he not counted us as strangers, and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

Zechariah 14:12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord shall strike all nations that have fought against Jerusalem: the flesh of every one shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

Job 18:12
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