Job 18:12

10 A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

11 Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

13 It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
KJV
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
WEB
His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side.
ASV
His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
DARBY
His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.
BLB
His strength goes hungry, and destruction [is] ready at his side.
ÅB
Av sult blir hans kraft fortært, og ulykke står ferdig ved hans side.
OTB
Hans styrke er uttømt,
og ulykke er klar ved hans side.
B1930
Av sult blir hans kraft fortært, og ulykke står ferdig ved hans side.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Peter 2:3

    In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

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  • Job 15:23–24

    He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

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  • Psalms 34:10

    Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

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  • 1 Samuel 2:36

    And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

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  • 1 Samuel 2:5

    The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

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  • Psalms 109:10

    May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

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  • Psalms 7:12–14

    If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

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  • Isaiah 8:21

    They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

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