Job 18:12

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

His strength goes hungry, and destruction is ready at his side.

Latin

Attenuetur fame robur ejus, et inedia invadat costas illius.

Hebrew

English

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

Bildad uses the biblical idea of revenge (consequences for doing wrong) in Job's case, as do Eliphaz and Zophar.

Job 15:23–24
He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
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.”’”
Psalm 109:10
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Psalm 34:10
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
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.
Psalm 7:12–14
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
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.
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.
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.