Job 18:13
It consumes the parts of his skin, || Death’s firstborn consumes his parts.
Literal 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 sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.
14His confidence is drawn from his tent, || And it causes him to step to the king of terrors.
Cross References
Job 17:16You go down [to] the parts of Sheol, || If we may rest together on the dust.”
Jonah 2:6To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, || The earth, her bars [are] behind me for all time. And You bring my life up from the pit, O YHWH my God.
Revelation 6:8And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and he who is sitting on him—his name is Death, and Hades follows with him, and there was given to them authority to kill over the fourth part of the earth 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 →