Job 18:12

In 11 translations

BSB

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

KJV

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

WEB

His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

ASV

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

LSV

His sorrow is hungry, || And calamity is ready at his side.

YLT

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

DBY

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.

DRC

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

GNV

His strength shalbe famine: and destruction shalbe readie at his side.

JPS

His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.

LXXE

vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יְהִי־רָעֵ֥ב אֹנ֑וֹ וְ֝אֵ֗יד נָכ֥וֹן לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

πτῶμα δὲ αὐτῷ ἡτοίμασται ἐξαίσιον.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 7:12–14If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire. Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble…
• 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• 2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
• Job 15:23–24He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.
• Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
• Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
• 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
• 1 Samuel 2:36And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
• Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

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