Job 9:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that swoopeth 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 were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

Isaiah 18:2

that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen spread themselves: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;