Job 18:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

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  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
  • Job 15:23-24 : 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
  • Ps 7:12-14 : 12 If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger: but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed 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 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:13-14
    2 verses
    85%

    13It shall consume the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall consume his strength.

    14His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

  • Job 18:6-11
    6 verses
    80%

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

    9The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

    10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

    11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

    24Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.

  • Job 33:19-22
    4 verses
    77%

    19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain;

    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones, that were not seen, stick out.

    22Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 20:21-26
    6 verses
    77%

    21None of his food shall be left; therefore no one shall look for his goods.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

    23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

    25It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall; terrors are upon him.

    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

  • 20And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.

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    24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

    25The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

  • 21A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • 15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

  • 14Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

  • 26Yes, those who eat of his delicacies shall destroy him, and his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

  • 17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • 16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

  • 22In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

  • 28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • 11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • 28And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • 15The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within; he who is in the field shall die by the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • 5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • 15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • 9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

  • 9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • 10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

  • 14If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

  • 34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.