Job 9:26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25“Now 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 face, and cheer up,’
Cross References
Job 39:27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
Isaiah 18:2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
Lamentations 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush 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 →