Verse 12

Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 Everyone left of your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and they will plead, ‘Please appoint me to some priestly office so I can have a morsel of bread to eat.’
  • Job 15:23-24 : 23 He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand. 24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king prepared for battle.
  • Ps 7:12-14 : 12 God is a righteous judge and a God who is angry every day. 13 If a person does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. 14 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 Fear the Lord, you His holy ones, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 May his children wander and beg, seeking food far from their ruined homes.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.