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Myles Coverdale Bible
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.
They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.
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.
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
Then fell Abraha vpo his face, and laughed, and sayde in his hert: Shal a childe be borne vnto me that am an hundreth yeare olde? And shall Sara yt is nyentie yeare olde, beare?
Abraham wente a pace in to the tent to Sara, and sayde: Make haist, & mengle thre peckes of fyne meele, knede it, and bake cakes.
And he ranne to the beastes, & fet a calf that was tender and good, and gaue it vnto a yonge man, which made it ready at once.
And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age: so that it wente nomore with Sara after ye maner of wemen:
therfore laughed she within hir self, and sayde: Now that I am olde & my lorde olde also, shal I yet geue my self to lust?
Then sayde ye LORDE vnto Abraham: Wherfore doth Sara laugh, and saye: Is this true in dede, that I shal beare, and yet am olde?
seynge he shal be a greate and mightie people, and all ye people vpo earth shalbe blessed in him?
And the LORDE sayde: There is a crie at Sodome and Gomorra, which is greate, & their synnes are exceadinge greuous:
The shal oure mouth be fylled with laughter, and oure tonge with ioye.
Neuertheles do ye so, that euery one of you loue his wife euen as himselfe: but let the wife feare hir hussbande.
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.
