Job 18:13 · KJV
“It shall devour the strength of his skin: {even} the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. {strength: Heb. bars}”
— Job 18:13
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Job 18 — Context
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. {drive: Heb. scatter}
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: {even} the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. {strength: Heb. bars}
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because {it is} none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Cross References
Genesis 49:3
Reuben, thou {art} my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Job 17:16
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when {our} rest together {is} in the dust.
Zechariah 14:12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars {was} about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. {bottoms: Heb. cuttings off} {corruption: or, the pit}
Revelation 6:8
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. {unto them: or, to him}
Isaiah 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.