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Job_18:13 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; these destruction shall devour or swallow up at a bite, as a hungry monster.
The firstborn of death shall devour his strength] i.e. The devil, say some, that destroyer, Rev_9:11, that old manslayer, Joh_8:44, Prince of death, Heb_2:14, as Christ is called Prince of life, Act_3:15, and firstborn of death, as Christ is the firstborn of the resurrection, Col_1:18. Others understand it, De cruentissima ac funestissima morte, to be the most tragic and cruel kind of death, see Isa_14:30. Broughton readeth it, A strange death shall eat the branches of his body, judgments shall come upon thee in their perfection, saith God to Babylon, Isa_47:9.