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11 Terrors alarm him on every side,
    hounding his every step.
12 His strength is weakened by hunger,
    and disaster awaits him on all sides.
13 “His skin is eaten away by disease;
    the firstborn of death devours his limbs.[a]

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  1. Job 18:13 The ancients regarded illnesses as the children of death; the allusion here, then, is to very serious illness.