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Job 18:12–13

12 Calamityl is hungrym for him;

disastern is ready for him when he falls.o

13 It eats away parts of his skin;p

death’s firstborn devours his limbs.q

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Job 18:12–13 — English Standard Version (ESV)

12 His strength is famished,

and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

13 It consumes the parts of his skin;

the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

12 His strength shall be hungerbitten,

And destruction shall be ready at his side.

13 It shall devour the strength of his skin:

Even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Job 18:12–13 — New Living Translation (NLT)

12 Hunger depletes their strength,

and calamity waits for them to stumble.

13 Disease eats their skin;

death devours their limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

12 His strength is starved,

And destruction is ready at his side.

13 It devours patches of his skin;

The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — New Century Version (NCV)

12 Hunger takes away their strength,

and disaster is at their side.

13 Disease eats away parts of their skin;

death gnaws at their arms and legs.

Job 18:12–13 — American Standard Version (ASV)

12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten,

And calamity shall be ready at his side.

13 The members of his body shall be devoured,

Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

Job 18:12–13 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side. 13 The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

Job 18:12–13 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

12 Hunger undermines his strength. 

Disaster is waiting beside him. 

13 His skin is eaten away by disease. 

Death’s firstborn son eats away at the limbs of his body. 

Job 18:12–13 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12 His strength is depleted;

disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

13 Parts of his skin are eaten away;

death’s firstborn consumes his limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

12 Their strength is consumed by hunger,

and calamity is ready for their stumbling.

13 By disease their skin is consumed,

the firstborn of Death consumes their limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12 His wealth will become hunger,

and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

13 It consumes parts of his skin;

the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

Job 18:12–13 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

12 Trouble would like to eat them up.

Danger waits for them when they fall.

13 It eats away parts of their skin.

Death itself feeds on their arms and legs.

Job 18:12–13 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

12 “His strength is famished,

And calamity is ready at his side.

13 “His skin is devoured by disease,

The firstborn of death devours his limbs.


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