Job 9:26
They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
27If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
Cross References
Job 39:27Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places?
Isaiah 18:2which sends ambassadors by sea and in vessels of papyrus above the waters. Go forth, O swift Angels, to a nation which has been convulsed and torn apart, to a terrible people, after whom there is no other, to a nation apprehensive and downtrodden, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
Lamentations 4:19COPH. Our persecutors have been swifter than the eagles of the sky. They have been pursuing us above the mountains; they have lain in wait for us in the desert.
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 →