Job 18:13
What does Job 18:13 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 18:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
KJV
King James Version · 1611It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 14:30
And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain.
- Job 17:16
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
- Genesis 49:3
Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
- Jonah 2:6
I 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.
- Zechariah 14:12
And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
- Revelation 6:8
And 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.
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