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Job 18:12-14
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12 His strength is weakened by hunger,
    and disaster awaits him on all sides.
13 “His skin is eaten away by disease;
    the firstborn of death devours his limbs.[a]
14 He is dragged from the security of his tent
    and carted off to the king of terrors.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:13 The ancients regarded illnesses as the children of death; the allusion here, then, is to very serious illness.
  2. Job 18:14 King of terrors: i.e., death. In various civilizations the ruler of the realm of the dead was called Nergal, Pluto, or Moloch (see Isa 57:9).
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