Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
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.
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.
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 are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness. 26 They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey. 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,'
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are faster than leopards and more alert than wolves in the desert. Their horses gallop, their horses come a great distance; like a vulture they swoop down quickly to devour their prey.
Isaiah 18:2
that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water's surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were greatly loved during their lives, and not even in their deaths were they separated. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.
Job 39:27-30
Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?
Proverbs 23:5
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Jeremiah 4:13
Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. His horses move more swiftly than eagles." I cry out, "We are doomed, for we will be destroyed!"
Lamentations 4:19
(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.