Job 18:12
New International Version
Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.

New Living Translation
Hunger depletes their strength, and calamity waits for them to stumble.

English Standard Version
His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

Berean Standard Bible
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

King James Bible
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

New King James Version
His strength is starved, And destruction is ready at his side.

New American Standard Bible
“His strength is famished, And disaster is ready at his side.

NASB 1995
“His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.

NASB 1977
“His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side.

Legacy Standard Bible
His vigor is famished, And disaster is ready at his side.

Amplified Bible
“The strength [of the wicked] is famished and weakened, And disaster is ready at his side [if he stops].

Christian Standard Bible
His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His strength is depleted; disaster lies ready for him to stumble.

American Standard Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And his affliction will be a famine, and ruin is prepared for his posterity

Brenton Septuagint Translation
vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

Contemporary English Version
Starving, they run, only to meet disaster,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let his strength be wasted with famine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

English Revised Version
His strength shall be hunger-bitten and calamity shall be ready for his halting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Hunger undermines his strength. Disaster is waiting beside him.

Good News Translation
They used to be rich, but now they go hungry; disaster stands and waits at their side.

International Standard Version
He is starved for strength; and is ripe for a fall.

JPS Tanakh 1917
His trouble shall be ravenous, And calamity shall be ready for his fall.

Literal Standard Version
His sorrow is hungry, | And calamity is ready at his side.

Majority Standard Bible
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

New American Bible
His strength is famished, disaster is ready at his side,

NET Bible
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

New Revised Standard Version
Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.

New Heart English Bible
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

Webster's Bible Translation
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

World English Bible
His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.

Young's Literal Translation
Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

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Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step. 12His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side. 13It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.…

Cross References
Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Isaiah 8:21
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.


Treasury of Scripture

His strength shall be extremely hungry, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

hunger-bitten

Job 15:23,24
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand…

1 Samuel 2:5,36
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble…

Psalm 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

destruction

Psalm 7:12-14
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready…

1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon 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 now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

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Job 18
1. Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5. The calamities of the wicked














(12) His strength.--By "strength" some understand his firstborn son, as Genesis 49:3, but it is not necessary to take it otherwise than literally.

Destruction shall be ready at his side.--Or, according to some, for his halting; shall lie in wait for his tripping in order to overthrow him.

Verse 12. - His strength shall be hunger-bitten. (So Dillmann, Cook, and the Revised Version.) To the other sufferings of the wicked man shall be added the pangs of hunger. His bodily strength shall disappear, as destitution and famine come upon him. And destruction shall be ready at his side. Ready to seize on him at any moment. Some translate, "ready for his halting" i.e. ready to seize on him in ease of his tripping or halting (so the Revised Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
His strength
אֹנ֑וֹ (’ō·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 202: Ability, power, wealth

is
יְהִי־ (yə·hî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

depleted,
רָעֵ֥ב (rā·‘êḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7457: Hungry

and calamity
וְ֝אֵ֗יד (wə·’êḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 343: Oppression, misfortune, ruin

[is] ready
נָכ֥וֹן (nā·ḵō·wn)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

at his side.
לְצַלְעֽוֹ׃ (lə·ṣal·‘ōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6763: A rib, a side, a, timber, plank


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