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Job 18:12
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His strength is depleted;disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
Hunger takes away their strength, and disaster is at their side.
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
"The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened, And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].
"His strength is famished, And disaster is ready at his side.
His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
His vigor is famished,And disaster is ready at his side.
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,
"Trouble is hungry for him, calamity ready for his fall;
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Disaster is hungry for them. Ruin stands close by, waiting for them to fall.
Let famine be his grief, let destruction be ready for his posterity.
His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
Honger shalbe his substaunce, and my?fortune shall hange vpon him.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
His strength shalbe hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Hunger shalbe his strength, and destruction shalbe redye at his side.
vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten and calamity shall be ready for his halting.
His strengthe be maad feble bi hungur; and pouert asaile hise ribbis.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side.
Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
His strength leaves him because trouble is waiting for him at every side.
Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
"His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hungerbitten: Job 15:23, Job 15:24, 1 Samuel 2:5, 1 Samuel 2:36, Psalms 34:10, Psalms 109:10
destruction: Psalms 7:12-14, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Peter 2:3
Reciprocal: Job 18:15 - dwell Luke 9:7 - Herod
Cross-References
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."
Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready.
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too."
Then the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
His descendants will become a great and mighty nation, and through him I will bless all the nations.
Then the Lord said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.
How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, "The Lord did great things for them."
But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His strength shall be hungerbitten,.... Or "shall be famine" u, or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly weakens thee natural strength of men; want of food will soon bring down the strength of the strongest man, when the stay and the staff, the sustenance and support of man's nature is taken from him: many of the Jewish writers, by "his strength", understand his children, who are, as Jacob said of Reuben, his might, and the beginning of his strength, Genesis 49:3; and when grown up are his protection and defence; and for these to be distressed with hunger, or destroyed by famine, is a sore judgment; so the Targum paraphrases it, his firstborn son; Jarchi interprets it, his son; and Ben Gersom, his seed or offspring:
and destruction [shall be] ready at his side; or "to his rib" w; that is, his wife, as the Targum and Jarchi explain it, the Jews calling a man's wife his rib, because the woman was originally made out of one of the ribs of man; and if this could be thought to be the sense of the word here, and what is given by them of the former clause, both make up a complete account of the destruction of a wicked man's family, his wife and children: but rather it signifies some calamity, distress, and trouble at hand, ready prepared for wicked men, just going to be inflicted on them; for God has stores of vengeance for them, and has made ready his bow, and prepared instruments and arrows of death and destruction for them, as well as there is everlasting fire prepared, and blackness of darkness reserved for them in the world to come; for it can hardly be thought that this should be understood literally of any disease in the side, as the pleurisy, &c. which is threatening, or any mortal wound or stab there, such as Joab gave Amass under the fifth rib.
u רעב "fames", Beza. w לצלעו "costae ejus", Montanus, Vatablus, Grotius, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His strength shall be hungerbitten - Shall be exhausted by hunger or famine.
And destruction shall be ready at his side - Hebrew “Shall be fitted” נכוּן nākûn “to his side.” Some have supposed that this refers to some disease, like the pleurisy, that would adhere closely to his side. So Jerome understands it. Schultens has quoted some passages from Arabic poets, in which calamities are represented as “breaking the side.” Bildad refers probably, to some heavy judgments that would crush a man; such that the ribs, or the human frame, could not bear; and the meaning is, that a wicked man would be certainly crushed by misfortune.
