12 Calamity(A) is hungry(B) for him;
    disaster(C) is ready for him when he falls.(D)
13 It eats away parts of his skin;(E)
    death’s firstborn devours his limbs.(F)
14 He is torn from the security of his tent(G)
    and marched off to the king(H) of terrors.(I)

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12 His strength is (A)famished,
And disaster is ready at his side.
13 [a]It devours parts of his skin,
The firstborn of death (B)devours his [b]limbs.
14 He is (C)torn from [c]the security of his tent,
And [d]they march him before the king of (D)terrors.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:13 Another reading is His skin is devoured by illness
  2. Job 18:13 Or parts
  3. Job 18:14 Lit his tent his trust
  4. Job 18:14 Lit you march or she marches