Job 9:26
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Majority Standard Bible
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 are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
27If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
Cross References
Job 39:27Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
Isaiah 18:2which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Lamentations 4:19Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed 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 →