Job 18:12
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.
13Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
Job 15:23When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 34:10Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth 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 →