Job 18:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

His strength shall be hungerbitten, And destruction shall be ready at his side.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The strength [of the wicked] shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side [if he halts].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Their offspring hunger; calamity is ready for their spouses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let his strength be diminished by famine, and let starvation invade his ribs.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let his strength be wasted with famine: and let hunger invade his ribs.

Job 18:12 Cross References

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 109:10

May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

Psalm 34:10

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward;

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

1 Samuel 2:36

And every one who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and shall say, “Put me, I pray you, in one of the priest's places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.