Job 18:13
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
In Context
12His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:
Cross References
Job 17:16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
Revelation 6:8And I saw: and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat upon it, his name [was] Death, and hades followed with him; and authority was given to him over the fourth of the earth to slay with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:12-21
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up… Read the whole commentary →