Job 18:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It shall devour the strengthe of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. ”

• Job 18:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  It shall devour the strength of his skin - Margin, bars. The margin is a correct translation of the Hebrew. The word used ( בדי badēy , construct with עורו ‛ ôrô - his skin) means bars,...

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• Job 18:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the (h) firstborn of death shall devour his strength. (h) That is, some strong and violent death will consume his strength: or as the Hebrew word sig...

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• Job 18:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 18. Second Speech of Bildad. Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate of the godless. Into the description of this, howev...

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• Job 18:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  strength . parts or members of his body. skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole body. Compare Exodus 22:26 . firstborn of death: i.e. the chief, or wor...

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• Job 18:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. It shall devour the strength of his skin - This may refer to the elephant, or to the rhinoceros, who...

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• Job 18:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  It shall devour, &c.— Filthy ulcers shall consume his skin; an untimely death shall destroy his children. Heath and Houbigant. This sarcasm was peculiarly adapted to the case of Job, whose sk...

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• Job 18:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. Umbreit has 'he' for "it" - i:e., in the rage of hunger he shall devour his own body:' or, his o...

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• Job 18:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Bildad's Second Speech Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not so much, however, with covert reference to Job, to...

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• Job 18:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The strength of his skin. — This verse should probably be rendered, “It shall devour the members of his body, even the firstborn of death shall devour his members;” and by the “firstborn of death”...

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• Job 18:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1-21 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished mashal , this speech of Bildad stands out in its strength and subtlety and, no less,...

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• Job 18:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2 , r.v....

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• Job 18:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sense of annoyance. He was wounded at the wrongs done...

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• Job 18:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. (8) For he is cast...

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• Job 18:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  It shall devour the strength of his skin ,.... Or "the bars of his skin" x, the strength and support of his body, for which his skin may be put, as the bones; or "the branches of his skin" y, the ve...

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• Job 18:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. Ver. 13. It shall devour the strength of his skin ] i.e. His bones, which support his skin; the...

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• Job 18:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  It shall devour , &c. “Filthy ulcers shall consume his skin; an untimely death shall destroy his children. Heath and Houbigant. This sarcasm was peculiarly adapted to the case of Job, whose sk...

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• Job 18:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong opposition, reproving Job unjustly. He considered J...

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• Job 18:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.   12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.   13 It shall devour th...

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• Job 18:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The strength of his skin, Heb. the bars , or rather, the branches of the skin , i.e. either the veins and sinews, which branch out themselves through the skin as well as elsewhere; or the fat and...

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• Job 18:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery scathing denunciation against—the wicked—intending, o...

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• Job 18:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 18:6 . The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “the Lord will make darkness light before them.” Is...

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• Job 18:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite. The danger of denouncing wickedness How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedness! Nothing can be added to their delineation of...

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• Job 18:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 18:1-18 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-18 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled by Job's contemptuous words concerning his "comfort...

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• Job 18:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners

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• Job 18:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 49:3 ; Isaiah 14:30 ; Job 17:16 ; Jonah 2:6 ; Revelation 6:8

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• Job 18:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  First — born — A terrible kind of death. The first — born was the chief of his brethren, and therefore this title is given to things eminent in their kind.

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