Job 18 · Verse 12

Job 18:12

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Job 18:12, King James Version

Job 18:12 in other translations

BSBHis strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
WEBHis strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
ASVHis strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
YLTHungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
DARBYHis strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
BBEHis strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
WebsterHis strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

What does Job 18:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. The Hebrew is brief and bold, "his strength is hungry." destruction--that is, a great calamity (Pr 1:27). ready at his side--close at hand to destroy him (Pr 19:29).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 18:11-21

Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his…

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Job 18:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְהִי\־ye.hi-it isH1961
רָעֵ֥בra.'EvhungryH7457
אֹנ֑וֹ'o.Notrouble hisH202
וְ֝אֵ֗ידve.'Eidand disasterH343
נָכ֥וֹןna.Khon[is] preparedH3559
לְצַלְעֽוֹ\׃le.tzal.'Ofor stumbling hisH6761

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 18:12

  • 2 Peter 2:3

    And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

  • Job 15:23-24

    He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Psalms 34:10

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

  • 1 Samuel 2:36

    And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

  • 1 Samuel 2:5

    They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

  • Psalms 109:10

    Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

  • Psalms 7:12-14

    If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Isaiah 8:21

    And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3

    For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hunger-bitten.
15:23,24; 1Sa 2:5,36; Ps 34:10; 109:10
destruction.
Ps 7:12-14; 1Th 5:3; 2Pe 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 18:11

    Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

  • Job 18:12

    His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

  • Job 18:13

    It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

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Job 18:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Su fuerza será hambrienta, y á su lado estará aparejado quebrantamiento.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Sa force est affaiblie par la faim, et la calamité est prête à son côté.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Seine Kraft wird aufgezehrt werden durch Hunger, und das Verderben steht bereit an seiner Seite.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Attenuetur fame robur ejus, et inedia invadat costas illius.