Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and trouble shall be 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 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is 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 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall dash him at his feet. 12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and trouble shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the parts of his skin; the first-born of death consumes his parts.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full have hired themselves out for bread, and they that were hungry ceased; yea, while the barren has borne seven, and she who had many sons has languished.
1 Samuel 2:36
And it shall be that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a piece of bread. And they shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.
Job 15:23-24
He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
Psalm 7:12-14
If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
Psalm 34:10
The young lions lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek Jehovah shall not lack any good thing.
Psalm 109:10
Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.
Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall be, they shall be hungry; They shall rave 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 comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.
2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.