"It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength."
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Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.
The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the first-born of death shall devour his strength.
The members of his body shall be devoured, The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.