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Job 18:12

Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
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 Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet. 12 Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs. 13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms. 14 Let his confidence be rooted out of his tabernacle, and let destruction tread upon him like a king. 15 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent. 16 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. 17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets. 18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world. 19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country. 20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, and horror shall fall upon them that went before.

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
Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?
Genesis 18:6
Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.
Genesis 18:7
And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it.
Genesis 18:11
Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12
And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure?
Genesis 18:13
And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed?
Genesis 18:18
Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
Psalms 126:2
(125-2) Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear 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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