Job 9:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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 to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Isaiah 18:2

which sends ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon 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

Behold, 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 vultures 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 fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,