Job 18:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹Terrors alarm him on every side,
    hounding his every step.
¹²His 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]

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Footnotes

Job 18:13 The ancients regarded illnesses as the children of death; the allusion here, then, is to very serious illness.

Job 18:11-13

New International Version

¹¹Terrors^(A) startle him on every side^(B)
    and dog^(C) his every step.
¹²Calamity^(D) is hungry^(E) for him;
    disaster^(F) is ready for him when he falls.^(G)
¹³It eats away parts of his skin;^(H)
    death’s firstborn devours his limbs.^(I)

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Job 18:11-13

King James Version

¹¹Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

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.

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Job 18:11-13

English Standard Version

¹¹^(A)Terrors frighten him on every side,
    and chase him at his heels.
¹²His strength is famished,
    and calamity is ^(B)ready for his stumbling.
¹³It consumes the parts of his skin;
    ^(C)the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.