Job 18:12

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 31:3

Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

Psalm 109:10

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

Psalm 34:10

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

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.

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.’”

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.