Job 9:26
They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,
Cross References
Job 39:27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
Isaiah 18:2that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying,] Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly 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 →