Job 9:26
They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
In Context
25My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.
27If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,
Cross References
Job 39:27He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet.
Isaiah 18:2Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.
Lamentations 4:19Our persecuters are swifter then the eagles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.
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 →