Job 18:12
Vex him with distressing hunger: 1 And a signal destruction has been prepared for him. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Let pains destroy him round about, 1 And let many enemies come about him, 1
13Let the soles of his feet be devoured: 1 And death shall consume his beauty. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full of bread are brought low; 1 And the hungry have forsaken the land; 1 For the barren has born seven, 1 And she that abounded in children has waxed feeble. 1
Job 15:23And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; 1 And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: 1 And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. 1
Psalms 34:10All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to thee? 1 Delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, 1 Yea, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him. 1
Isaiah 8:21And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers’ ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,
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 →