Job 9:26
They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
Cross References
Job 39:27Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places?
Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
Lamentations 4:19Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in 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 →