Job 18:12 · KJV
“His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.”
— Job 18:12
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. {drive: Heb. scatter}
It shall devour the strength of his skin: {even} the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. {strength: Heb. bars}
Job 18 — Context
The snare {is} laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. {laid: Heb. hidden}
11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. {drive: Heb. scatter}
12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction {shall be} ready at his side.
13It shall devour the strength of his skin: {even} the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. {strength: Heb. bars}
14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Cross References
Psalms 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.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.
Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
1 Samuel 2:5
{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.
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.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good {thing}.
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.