Job 9:26
They pass by like fast sailing ships, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25The days of my life race by like a runner, rushing past without me seeing any happiness.
27If I said to myself, ‘I will forget my complaints; I will stop crying and be happy,’
Cross References
Job 39:27Do you command the eagle to fly high and make its nest in the summits of the mountains?
Isaiah 18:2They send messengers downriver in papyrus boats. Swift messengers, go and take a message to a tall and smooth-skinned people, to a people feared by everyone, to a very powerful nation of conquerors, whose land is washed away by rivers.
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were faster than eagles in the sky. They chased us across the mountains and ambushed 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 →