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Job 18:13

Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Devoret pulchritudinem cutis ejus ; consumat brachia illius primogenita mors.
Septuagint (Swete): βρωθείησαν αὐτοῦ κλῶνες ποδῶν, κατέδεται δὲ τὰ ὡραῖα αὐτοῦ θάνατος.
Hebrew (WLC): יֹ֭אכַל בַּדֵּ֣י עוֹר֑וֹ יֹאכַ֥ל בַּ֝דָּ֗יו בְּכ֣וֹר מָֽוֶת

Haydock's commentary

First-born denotes the best, or the worst. (Haydock)

Death. Hebrew, "of death," the devil, or a premature death, and most cruel enemy. (Calmet)

Septuagint, "But death devours his most beautiful things." (Haydock)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.