Job 9:26

The Scriptures 1998

They have passed by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

“Sha’ul and Yehonathan were beloved And pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.

Proverbs 23:5

Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens.

Isaiah 18:2

which sends envoys by sea, even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, “Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and trampling, whose land the rivers divide.”

Jeremiah 4:13

“See, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses shall be swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we shall be ravaged!”

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They came hotly after us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Habakkuk 1:8

“Their horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.

Deuteronomy 28:49

“יהוה  brings a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,