Job 18:13

Job 18:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
• New International Version (NIV)It eats away parts of his skin; death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
• English Standard Version (ESV)It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
• New King James Version (NKJV)It devours patches of his skin; The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Context of Job 18:13

11All around sudden terrors frighten him, And harass him at every step. 12His strength is famished, And disaster is ready at his side. It devours parts of his skin, The firstborn of death devours his limbs. 14He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors. 15Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone is scattered on his home.

Job 18:13 word by word

יֹ֭אכַל בַּדֵּ֣י עוֹר֑וֹ יֹאכַ֥ל בַּ֝דָּ֗יו בְּכ֣וֹר מָֽוֶת׃Read the interlinear

• It devoursאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• partsבַּדbad · alone: poleH905
• of his skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• The firstbornבְּכוֹרbekôr · firstbornH1060
• of deathמָ֫וֶתmâveth · deathH4194

Cross-references for Job 18:13

• Job 17:16Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
• Jonah 2:6I descended to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, Lord my God.
• Genesis 49:3“Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
• Isaiah 14:30Those who are most helpless will eat, And the poor will lie down in security; I will kill your root with famine, And it will kill your survivors.
• Revelation 6:8I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and the one who sat on it had the name Death, and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and famine, and plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.

Commentaries on Job 18:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13It shall devour the strength of his skin - This may refer to the elephant, or to the rhinoceros, whose skin scarcely any dart can pierce: but in the case referred to above, the animal is taken in a pitfall, and then the first-born of death - a sudden and overwhelming stroke - deprives him of life. See the account of hunting the elephant in the East at the end of the chapter, Job 18:21; (note). The Chaldee has: "The strength of his skin shall devour his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13It shall devour the strength of his skin - Margin, bars. The margin is a correct translation of the Hebrew. The word used (בדי badēy construct with עורו ‛ôrô - his skin) means bars, staves, branches, and here denotes his limbs, members; or, more literally, the bones, as supports of the skin, or the human frame. The bones are regarded as the bars, or the framework, holding the other parts of the body in their place, and over which the skin is stretched…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13death devours: The prophet Isaiah later changed this image. He pictured the Lord as defeating death (Isaiah 25:8; see 1 Corinthians 15:54).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Umbreit has "he" for "it," that is, "in the rage of hunger he shall devour his own body"; or, "his own children" (La 4:10). Rather, "destruction" from Job 18:12 is nominative to "devour." strength--rather, "members" (literally, the "branches" of a tree). the first-born of death--a personification full of poetical horror. The first-born son held the chief place (Ge 49:3); so here the chiefest (most deadly) disease that death has ever engendered (Is…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 18:13

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Net
• Bildad
• Plagues of Egypt
• Skin

Commentaries on Job 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary