Job 9:26
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
27If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
Cross References
Job 39:27\39:24\Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;
Isaiah 18:2Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
Lamentations 4:19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
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 →