Job 9:26 “They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on it…”

Job 9:26

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

World English Bible

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

American Standard Version

They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

Geneva Bible 1599

They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

Darby Translation

They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

Young's Literal Translation

They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

Bible in Basic English

They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

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Cross references

“as the eagle”

Habakkuk 1:8 Job 39:27–30 2 Samuel 1:23 Proverbs 23:5 Jeremiah 4:13 Lamentations 4:19

Habakkuk 1:8 · BSB

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Job 39:27–30 · BSB

Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

2 Samuel 1:23 · BSB

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

Proverbs 23:5 · BSB

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Jeremiah 4:13 · BSB

Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Lamentations 4:19 · BSB

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Also

Isaiah 18:2

Isaiah 18:2 · BSB

which 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…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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,’

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