Job 18:12
What does Job 18:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 18:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
KJV
King James Version · 1611His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Peter 2:3
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
- Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
- 1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry have ceasedto hunger: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that hath many children languisheth.
- Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- Psalms 109:10
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
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