Job 18:12
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction will 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 →