Job 18:12
Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
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- 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.
- 1 Sam 2:36 : 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.’”
- Job 15:23-24 : 23 he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. 24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
- Ps 7:12-14 : 12 If a person does not repent, God will wield his sword. He has prepared to shoot his bow. 13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows. 14 See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–
- Ps 34:10 : 10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Ps 109:10 : 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
- Isa 8:21 : 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 Thess 5:3 : 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 Pet 2:3 : 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.
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- Job 18:13-142 verses85%
13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
- Job 18:6-116 verses80%
6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.
8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.
9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.
10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
- Job 15:23-242 verses77%
23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
- Job 33:19-224 verses77%
19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
- Job 20:21-266 verses77%
21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.
22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.
23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
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20They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
- Deut 32:24-252 verses74%
24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
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21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
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15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
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14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
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26Those who share the king’s fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.
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17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.
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22Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.
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28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
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18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
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28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
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15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
- Job 16:13-142 verses71%
13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
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9He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)
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9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
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16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
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10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
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14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
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55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
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34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”