Job 9:26

Tree of Life Version

They slip by like reed boats, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan, loved and delightful, parted neither in life nor death. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

Proverbs 23:5

When you cast your eyes 0n riches, it is gone; for it surely sprouts wings and flies off into the sky like an eagle.

Isaiah 18:2

that sends ambassadors by sea, in papyrus vessels upon the water. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, a nation powerful and oppressive, whose land the rivers divide.

Jeremiah 4:13

See, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like whirlwinds. His horses are swifter than eagles— “Oy ! We are ruined!”

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

Habakkuk 1:8

Its horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Its horsemen come galloping. Its horsemen are coming from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to eat.

Deuteronomy 28:49

“Adonai will raise up a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, just as the eagle swoops down—a nation whose language you will not understand,