Job 9:26
They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
Young's Literal Translation
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 thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?
Isaiah 18:2That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, — Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, 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 →