Job 9:26
They hasten along like pirate ships: like the eagle that stoopeth down upon his food.
Leeser Tanakh
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 pass swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no happiness,
Cross References
Job 39:27Or is it by your order that the eagle doth mount upward, and buildeth high up his nest?
Isaiah 18:2That sendeth on the sea ambassadors, and in vessels of bulrushes messengers over the face of the waters. Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation pulled and torn, to a people terrible from their beginning and onward; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Lamentations 4:19Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven: upon the mountains did they hotly follow us: in the wilderness did they lie in wait for us.
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 →