Job 18:13
The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.
American Standard Version
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 shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
Cross References
Job 17:16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou 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 him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild 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 →