Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him.
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.
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 "Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, that he shall not know where to get out. 12 Hunger shall be his substance, and misfortune shall hang upon him. 13 He shall eat the strength of his own skin; the firstborn of death shall eat his members.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble.
1 Samuel 2:36
And they that are left in thine house, shall come and crouch to him for a little piece of silver and a cake of bread, and shall say: put me, I pray thee, in one office or other among the priests, that I may eat a morsel of bread.'"
Job 15:23-24
When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand.
Psalm 7:12-14
If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.
Psalm 34:10
The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Psalm 109:10
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.
Isaiah 8:21
If he do not this, he stumbleth and suffereth hunger. And if he suffer hunger, he is out of patience, and blasphemeth his king and his God. Then looketh he upward, and downward to the earth,
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
2 Peter 2:3
and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.