Job 18:12

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Related Commentaries of Job 18:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His strength shall be hungerbitten - Shall be exhausted by hunger or famine. And destruction shall be ready at his side - Hebrew “Shall be fi...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

His strength shall be (g) hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. (g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by famine.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 18. Second Speech of Bildad. Bildad speaks this time at unusual length, but his speech has no significance, since it simply describes the fate o...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strength, &c. i.e. shall be weakened by hunger. Same word as Job 18:7 , not same as Job 18:13 .
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His strength shall be hunger-bitten— The Vulgate renders this, His strength shall be eaten by famine; which appears to be a good translation, and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. The Hebrew is brief and bold, 'his strength is hungry.' Beside...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bildad's Second Speech Bildad replies with a rebuke to Job and a reassertion of the miserable lot of the wicked already asserted by Eliphaz; not s...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hunger-bitten ] exhausted by hunger.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

His strength. — By “strength” some understand his firstborn son, as Genesis 49:3 , but it is not necessary to take it otherwise than literally....
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XV. A SCHEME OF WORLD RULE Job 18:1-21 BILDAD SPEAKS COMPOSED in the orderly parallelism of the finished mashal , this speech of Bildad sta...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Cast into a Net” Job 18:1-21 Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Bildad now returned to the charge, and as was the case with Eliphaz it is perfectly evident from his opening rebuke that he was speaking under a sens...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(6) The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. (7) The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

His strength shall be hungerbitten ,.... Or "shall be famine" u, or hunger, that is, shall be weakened by it; famine is a sore evil, and greatly wea...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side. Ver. 12. His strength shall be hunger bitten ] Heb. His strength...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Terrors shall make him afraid Both from men and from God, and also from his own unquiet mind and guilty conscience. And drive him to his feet Sha...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BILDAD'S STRONG REPROOF (vv.1-3) Bildad did not learn from Job's words to be a little more considerate than before, but shows only more strong o...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction sh...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His strength; either, 1. His children, which are, and are called, a man's strength, as Genesis 49:3 Psalms 127:4,5 . Or rather, 2. His wea...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

BILDAD’S SECOND SPEECH Bildad the bitterest and most hostile of the three friends. No speech as yet so insolent and provoking. Full of fiery sca...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 18:6 . The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. Darkness is a most ancient figure of speech for all kinds of affliction. But to good men, “t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite. The danger of denouncing wickedness How wonderfully well the three comforters painted the portrait of wickedn...
The Biblical Illustrator

His strength shall be hunger-bitten. The hunger-biter I. A curse which will be fulfilled upon the ungodly. It is not said that they are hunger-...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 18:1-18 Bildad's second speech is no improvement upon his first ( Job 8:1-18 .). He has evidently been exceedingly nettled b...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bildad Reckons Job with the Hardened Sinners
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

His strength shall be hunger-bitten, or, "his calamity presents itself hungry," it seems hungry, greedy to devour him, and destruction shall be read...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:36 ; 1 Samuel 2:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; Job 15:23 ; Job 15:24 ; Psalms 109:10 ; Psalms 34:10 ; Psalms 7:12-14

¹² His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Related Commentaries of Job 18:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:12