Job 9:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ They are passed away like the swift rowboats made of reeds, or like the eagle that swoops down on the prey.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

Common English Bible

²⁶ They sweep by like ships made of reeds, as an eagle swoops on prey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.

Job 9:26 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Isaiah 18:2

sending ambassadors by the Nile in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! He comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more menacing than wolves at dusk; their horses charge. Their horsemen come from far away; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,