“His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.”
"His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling." The wicked person is weakened by hunger, and disaster waits for his misstep. The verse suggests that the wicked person is progressively debilitated, and any weakness is opportunity for final destruction.
Church Fathers on Job 18:12
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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