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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 18:12

Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Knowledge;   Perishing;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His strength is depleted;disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
Hebrew Names Version
His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
English Standard Version
His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
New Century Version
Hunger takes away their strength, and disaster is at their side.
New English Translation
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
Amplified Bible
"The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened, And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].
New American Standard Bible
"His strength is famished, And disaster is ready at his side.
World English Bible
His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.
Legacy Standard Bible
His vigor is famished,And disaster is ready at his side.
Berean Standard Bible
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Contemporary English Version
Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,
Complete Jewish Bible
"Trouble is hungry for him, calamity ready for his fall;
Darby Translation
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Easy-to-Read Version
Disaster is hungry for them. Ruin stands close by, waiting for them to fall.
George Lamsa Translation
Let famine be his grief, let destruction be ready for his posterity.
Good News Translation
They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.
Lexham English Bible
His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
Literal Translation
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Honger shalbe his substaunce, and my?fortune shall hange vpon him.
American Standard Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
Bible in Basic English
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
King James Version (1611)
His strength shalbe hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hunger shalbe his strength, and destruction shalbe redye at his side.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
English Revised Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten and calamity shall be ready for his halting.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His strengthe be maad feble bi hungur; and pouert asaile hise ribbis.
Update Bible Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
Webster's Bible Translation
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
New King James Version
His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side.
New Living Translation
Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.
New Life Bible
His strength leaves him because trouble is waiting for him at every side.
New Revised Standard
Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
Revised Standard Version
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
Young's Literal Translation
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.

Contextual Overview

11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet. 12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side; 13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members; 14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors; 15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling; 16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch; 17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field; 18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him; 19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn: 20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

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

Genesis 17:17
And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, - and said in his heart To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hastened towards the tent unto Sarah, - and said, Hasten thou three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make hearth-cakes.
Genesis 18:7
And unto the herd, ran Abraham, - and took a calf tender and good and gave unto the young man, and he hastened to make it ready.
Genesis 18:11
But Abraham and Sarah, were old, far gone in days, - it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12
So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?
Genesis 18:13
And Yahweh said unto Abraham, - Wherefore now did Sarah laugh saying. Can it really and truly be that I should bear, seeing that have become old?
Genesis 18:18
when, Abraham, shall surely become, a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth, shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:20
So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great, - And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous,
Psalms 126:2
Then, was our mouth, filled with laughter, and our tongue with a shout of triumph, - Then, said they among the nations, Yahweh, hath done great things, with these!
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence 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.


 
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