Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune 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.
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 frighten him on all sides and dog his every step. 12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side. 13 It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.
1 Samuel 2:36
Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, 'Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.'"
Job 15:23-24
he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
Psalm 7:12-14
If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.
Psalm 34:10
Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Psalm 109:10
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
Isaiah 8:21
They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.