The Meaning of Job 18:13 Explained

Job 18:13

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

YLT: It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.

Darby: The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

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

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:13?

MEANING: What does Job 18:13 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:13 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:13?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

It shall devour  the strength  of his skin:  [even] the firstborn  of death  shall devour  his strength. 

What does Job 18:13 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 18:1-21 - "cast Into A Net"
Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls.
His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11; their destruction, Job 18:12-17; the horror with which men shall regard their fate, Job 18:18-21. All this was, of course, intended for Job. It was very severe. Even if the worst had been true, his extreme sufferings should have elicited more tenderness from his friends. Only the strong, wise hand of love can assuage the wounds that sin has made. We are indebted to Bildad for the phrase, king of terrors, as applied to death, Job 18:14. Apart from Christ, it is a significant and appropriate term. Sin has made his monarchy terrible. Yet even he has met his conqueror, John 11:25-26; Hebrews 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26.
The ancients had a deep presentiment of the punishments which must overtake sin. Probably we make too little of them. The note of fear has almost died out of modern preaching. In this there is a marked divergence from Baxter's Call to the Unconverted and from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. But the doom of sin can only be terrible, especially for those to whom Calvary has pleaded in vain. A great atonement implies great sin, and this, a great penalty. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 18

1  Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5  The calamities of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 18:13 mean?

It devours patches of his skin devours his limbs the firstborn of death
יֹ֭אכַל בַּדֵּ֣י עוֹר֑וֹ יֹאכַ֥ל בַּ֝דָּ֗יו בְּכ֣וֹר מָֽוֶת

יֹ֭אכַל  It  devours 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
בַּדֵּ֣י  patches 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בַּד 
Sense: alone, by itself, besides, a part, separation, being alone.
עוֹר֑וֹ  of  his  skin 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: עֹור  
Sense: skin, hide.
יֹאכַ֥ל  devours 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
בַּ֝דָּ֗יו  his  limbs 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בַּד 
Sense: alone, by itself, besides, a part, separation, being alone.
בְּכ֣וֹר  the  firstborn 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בְּכֹר  
Sense: firstborn, firstling.
מָֽוֶת  of  death 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָוֶת  
Sense: death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead.

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