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Job 18

Job 18:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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His strength
'own (Hebrew #202)
ability, power, (figuratively) wealth
KJV usage: force, goods, might, strength, substance.
Pronounce: one
Origin: probably from the same as 205 (in the sense of effort, but successful)
shall be hungerbitten
ra`eb (Hebrew #7457)
hungry (more or less intensely)
KJV usage: hunger bitten, hungry.
Pronounce: raw-abe'
Origin: from 7456
, and destruction
'eyd (Hebrew #343)
oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin
KJV usage: calamity, destruction.
Pronounce: ade
Origin: from the same as 181 (in the sense of bending down)
shall be ready
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
at his side
tsela` (Hebrew #6763)
from 6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Pronounce: tsay-law'
Origin: or (feminine) tsalTah {tsal-aw'}
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Ministry on This Verse

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hunger-bitten.
Job 15:23‑24• 23He wandereth abroad for bread,--where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle. (Job 15:23‑24)
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1 Sam. 2:5,36• 5They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are so no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
 36And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread. (1 Sam. 2:5,36)
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Psa. 34:10• 10The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good. (Psa. 34:10)
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Psa. 109:10• 10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places; (Psa. 109:10)
destruction.
Psa. 7:12‑14• 12If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
 13And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning.
 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood: (Psa. 7:12‑14)
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1 Thess. 5:3• 3When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
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2 Peter 2:3• 3And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not. (2 Peter 2:3)
• Disease and death his portion (vers. 12-15). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• In this portion he traces the misery of the evil-doer until he falls into the jaws of death. His “calamity,” as the word is rendered, preferably to “strength,” is represented as a beast with hunger gnawing at it, ready to pounce upon him as he falls. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready at his side.