Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They glided along with the ships of desire: as the eagle will pounce upon 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.
Bible in Basic English
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
Darby Translation
They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
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 were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good. 26 They glided along with the ships of desire: as the eagle will pounce upon food. 27 If my saying, I will forget my complaint, I will let go my face, and I will be cheerful:
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 1:8
And his horses were swift above panthers, and they were sharp above the wolves of the evening: and his horsemen were spread, and his horsemen shall come from far off; they shall fly as the eagle hastening to eat
Isaiah 18:2
Sending messengers upon the sea, and in vessels of the bulrush upon the face of the waters, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation drawn out and sharpened, to a people to be feared from this, and farther off; a nation of might, of might, and of treading down, of which the rivers divided up its land.
2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan beloved and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not separated: they were swift above eagles, they were strong above lions.
Job 39:27-30
If at thy mouth the eagle will lift itself up, and if it will raise up its nest?
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots as the whirlwind: his horses were swift above eagles. Wo to us for we were laid waste.
Lamentations 4:19
They pursuing us were swift above the eagle of the heavens: they burned after us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the desert