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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, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
 24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. (Job 15:23‑24)
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1 Sam. 2:5,36• 5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
 36And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. (1 Sam. 2:5,36)
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Psa. 34:10• 10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. (Psa. 34:10)
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Psa. 109:10• 10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. (Psa. 109:10)
destruction.
Psa. 7:12‑14• 12If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
 13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. (Psa. 7:12‑14)
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1 Thess. 5:3• 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
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2 Peter 2:3• 3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth 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.