Job 18:12
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Terrors make him afraid on every side, and chase him at his footsteps.
13The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are [so] no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Job 15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 34:10The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
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 →