Job 18:13
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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.

Lexicon
It devours
יֹ֭אכַל (yō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

patches
בַּדֵּ֣י (bad·dê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of

of his skin;
עוֹר֑וֹ (‘ō·w·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5785: Skin, hide, leather

the firstborn
בְּכ֣וֹר (bə·ḵō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1060: Firstborn, chief

of death
מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

devours
יֹאכַ֥ל (yō·ḵal)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

his limbs.
בַּ֝דָּ֗יו (bad·dāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of


Additional Translations
It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea , the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the firstborn of death shall devour his members.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.

The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
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