Job 18:12
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
In Context
11Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him — at his feet.
13It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
Job 15:23He is wandering for bread — 'Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Psalms 34:10Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
Isaiah 8:21— And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.
2 Peter 2:3and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
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 →