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Job 18:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Job 18:13-15
New Catholic Bible
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]
15 Anyone can live in his tent since it is no longer his;
brimstone[c] is scattered over his dwelling.
Footnotes
- Job 18:13 The ancients regarded illnesses as the children of death; the allusion here, then, is to very serious illness.
- 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).
- Job 18:15 Brimstone: an element used to disinfect a tent and remove every trace of the occupant.
