Job 18:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.”
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BSBPD
“His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 18:12 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- 1 Samuel 2:36And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Psalms 7:12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Isaiah 8:21They 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
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