Job 18:12
His strength shall be famished, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren has born seven; and she that has many children is waxed feeble.
Job 15:23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words (o. logos) make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation 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 →