Job 9:26
They have passed on with ships of reed, || As an eagle darts on food.
Literal Standard Version
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 runner, || They have fled, they have not seen good,
27Though I say, I forget my talking, || I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!
Cross References
Job 39:27At your command does an eagle go up high? Or lift up his nest?
Isaiah 18:2That is sending ambassadors by sea, || Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters—Go, swift messengers, || To a nation drawn out and peeled, || To a people fearful from its beginning and onward, || A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, || Whose land floods have spoiled.
Lamentations 4:19Swifter have been our pursuers, || Than the eagles of the heavens, || On the mountains they have burned [after] us, || In the wilderness they have laid 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 →