Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.
New American Standard Bible
And calamity is ready at his side.
King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Holman Bible
disaster lies ready for him to stumble.
International Standard Version
He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall.
A Conservative Version
His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
American Standard Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
Amplified
“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened,
And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].
Bible in Basic English
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
Darby Translation
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
Julia Smith Translation
His strength shall be hunger, and destruction being prepared at his side.
King James 2000
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Lexham Expanded Bible
His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.
Modern King James verseion
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and trouble shall be ready at his side.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him.
NET Bible
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
New Heart English Bible
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
The Emphasized Bible
Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;
Webster
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
World English Bible
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
Themes
Death of the The Wicked » Frequently marked by terror
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
11 Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him -- at his feet. 12 Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side. 13 It consumeth the parts of his skin, Consume his parts doth death's first-born.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
1 Samuel 2:36
and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'
Job 15:23-24
He is wandering for bread -- 'Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
Psalm 7:12-14
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
Psalm 34:10
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
Psalm 109:10
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Isaiah 8:21
-- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.