Job 18:12
Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Horrifying things will terrify him everywhere and will entangle his feet.
13Let it devour the beauty of his skin; let the ancient death consume his arms.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5Those who before were filled, have hired themselves out for bread. And the starving have been filled, so that the barren have given birth to many. But she who had borne many sons has become unable.
Job 15:23When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand.
Psalms 34:10All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like you?” He rescues the needy from the hand of the stronger one, the indigent and the poor from those who plunder him.
Isaiah 8:21And he will pass by it; he will fall and become hungry. And when he is hungry, he will become angry, and he will speak evil against his king and his God, and he will lift himself upward.
2 Peter 2:3And in avarice, they will negotiate about you with false words. Their judgment, in the near future, is not delayed, and their perdition does not sleep.
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 →