Job 18:12 “His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.”

Job 18:12

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

World English Bible

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

American Standard Version

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

Geneva Bible 1599

His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

Darby Translation

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

Young's Literal Translation

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

Bible in Basic English

His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

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Cross references

“hunger-bitten”

1 Samuel 2:5 1 Samuel 2:36 Psalm 34:10 Psalm 109:10 Job 15:23 Job 15:24

1 Samuel 2:5 · BSB

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

1 Samuel 2:36 · BSB

And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

Psalm 34:10 · BSB

Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Psalm 109:10 · BSB

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Job 15:23 · BSB

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24 · BSB

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

“destruction”

Psalm 7:12–14 1 Thessalonians 5:3 2 Peter 2:3

Psalm 7:12–14 · BSB

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Peter 2:3 · BSB

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Also

Isaiah 8:21

Isaiah 8:21 · BSB

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

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