Job 18:12

New International Reader's Version

Trouble would like to eat them up. Danger waits for them when they fall.

Cross References

Job 31:3

Sinful people are destroyed. Trouble comes to those who do what is wrong.

Psalm 109:10

May their children be driven from their destroyed homes. May they wander around like beggars.

Psalm 34:10

The lions may grow weak and hungry. But those who look to the Lord have every good thing they need.

Isaiah 8:21

They will suffer and be hungry. They’ll wander through the land. When they are very hungry, they will become angry. They’ll look up toward heaven. They’ll ask for bad things to happen to their king and their God.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will be saying that everything is peaceful and safe. Then suddenly they will be destroyed. It will happen like birth pains coming on a pregnant woman. None of the people will escape.

2 Peter 2:3

These teachers are never satisfied. They want to get something out of you. So they make up stories to take advantage of you. They have been under a sentence of death for a long time. The God who will destroy them has not been sleeping.

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone left in your family line will come and bow down to him. They will beg him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread. They will say, “Please give me a place to serve among the priests. Then I can have food to eat.” ’ ”

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who used to be full have to work for food. But those who used to be hungry aren’t hungry anymore. The woman who couldn’t have children has seven of them now. But the woman who has had many children is sad now because hers have died.