Job 9:26
They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Note swift…: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- swift ships
- Heb. ships of desire, or, ships of Ebeh. asthe eagle.
- Job 39:27–30; 2 Samuel 1:23; Proverbs 23:5; Jeremiah 4:13; Lamentations 4:19; Habakkuk 1:8