Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
27If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,
Cross References
Job 39:27Is it at thy command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
Isaiah 18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people fearful from their beginning onward, a nation that metes out and treads down
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor… Read the whole commentary →