Job 18:12

World English Bible (2000)

His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel 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 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
  • Ps 7:12-14 : 12 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows. 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:13-14
    2 verses
    85%

    13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.

    14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

  • Job 18:6-11
    6 verses
    80%

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

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

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

    9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

    11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

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

    24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Job 33:19-22
    4 verses
    77%

    19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

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

    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

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

  • Job 20:21-26
    6 verses
    77%

    21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

    23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

    24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

    25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • 20 One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

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    24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

    25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

  • 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

  • 26 Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

  • 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • 22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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

  • 30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

  • 11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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

  • 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • 9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • 9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • 16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

  • 14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 55 so 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 enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

  • 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.