Job 9:26
Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? 1 Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25But my life is swifter than a post: 1 My days have fled away, and they knew it not. 1
27And if I should say, I will forget to speak, 1 I will bow down my face and groan; 1
Cross References
Job 39:27And does the eagle rise at thy command, 1 And the vulture remain sitting over his nest, 1
Isaiah 18:2He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, 1 They flew on the mountains, 1 In the wilderness they laid wait for us. 1
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 →