Job 18:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

By disease their skin is consumed; the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

It shall devour the strength of his skin: Even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

By disease his strength and his skin shall be devoured; the firstborn of death [the worst of diseases] shall consume his limbs.

American Standard Version (1901)

The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Common English Bible

It eats some of their skin. Death’s firstborn consumes their limbs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let it devour the beauty of his skin: let the firstborn death consume his arms.

Job 18:13 Cross References

Genesis 31:15

Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has been using up the money given for us.

Genesis 49:3

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the first fruits of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Isaiah 14:30

In my pastures the poor will graze and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine, and your remnant I will kill.

Jonah 2:6

at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.

Zechariah 14:12

This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him; they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and pestilence and by the wild animals of the earth.