Bible Strands
Job 18:12
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Bildad speaks to Job during a discourse on the fate of the wicked, placing the subject at the immediate threshold of total collapse.
The words — נָכ֥וֹן (na.Khon) means "[is] prepared," and לְ/צַלְעֽ/וֹ (le./tzal./o) translates as "for his stumbling," describing disaster as an already-arranged snare rather than a random event.
The thread — This pattern of reversed provision and impending ruin appears in 1 Samuel 2:5, 1 Samuel 2:36, and Job 15:23.
Why it lands — The text states that human strength fails and judgment stands ready, requiring the reader to acknowledge the certainty of consequences without seeking mitigation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Cross-references
- 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.
- 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.”’”
- Job 15:23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Psalms 7:12 If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Psalms 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Psalms 109:10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 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.