Job 18:12
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Fearefulnesse shall make him afrayde on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.
Job 15:23He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
Psalms 34:10The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.
Isaiah 8:21Then he that is afflicted and famished, shall go to and from in it: and when he shalbe hungry, he shall euen freat himselfe, and curse his King and his gods, and shall looke vpward.
2 Peter 2:3And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth 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 →