KJV King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
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Job 18:12
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
WEB World English Bible
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
ASV American Standard Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
Surrounding context — Job 18
9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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Isaiah 8:21And 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 5:3For 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.1 Samuel 2:36And 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.Psalm 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].Psalm 7:12-14If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.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.Psalm 109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.Job 15:23-24He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.2 Peter 2:3And 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.
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