Job 18:12
His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
13The members of his body shall be devoured. The first-born of death shall devour his body-parts.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yea, the barren has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.
Job 15:23He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry. And it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward.
2 Peter 2:3And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:12-21
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up… Read the whole commentary →