It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
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Gill's Exposition
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle,.... That which his confidence was placed in, his wealth and riches, his family, particularly his children, in all which he placed his confidence…
Barnes' Notes
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, staves,…
Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
It shall devour the members of his body,
Even the firstborn of death shall devour his members.
The subject itin clause one is the "firstborn of death" in clause two; cf. a similar…
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