Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
27If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',
Cross References
Job 39:27Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they chased 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 →