Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Holman Bible
like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
International Standard Version
They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
A Conservative Version
They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
American Standard Version
They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
Amplified
“They pass by like the [swift] boats made of reeds,
Like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
Darby Translation
They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
Julia Smith Translation
They glided along with the ships of desire: as the eagle will pounce upon food.
King James 2000
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.
Modern King James verseion
They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They are passed away, as the ships that be good under sail, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey.
NET Bible
They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
New Heart English Bible
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
The Emphasized Bible
They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food.
Webster
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
World English Bible
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
Themes
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food. 27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 1:8
And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
Isaiah 18:2
Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Job 39:27-30
Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Jeremiah 4:13
See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.
Lamentations 4:19
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.