Job 18:13 — King James Version← Study notes
“It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.”
Job 18:13 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 18:137 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 18:13
Let it devour the beauty of his skin; and let the firstborn death consume his arms. ‘The beauty of his skin’ is temporal glory, which whereas it is coveted as an object without us, is retained as a beauty on the skin. But by the title of ‘arms’ works are not unfitly set forth, in that the work of the body is done by the arms. And what is death but sin, which kills the soul to the interior life? Whence it is written; Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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