It shall devour the strength of his skin:
[even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
BSB
It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
WEB
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
YLT
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death’s first-born.
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F.O.G MSG
¹³Disease eats away at their skin,
death’s firstbornᵇ devours their limbs.
Footnotes:
¹³ᵇ Death’s firstborn: A poetic way of describing the most deadly and powerful form of disease or plague, as if Death itself had children and this was the strongest.