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Job 9:26

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They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

They are passed away {H2498} as {H5973} the swift {H16} ships {H591}: as the eagle {H5404} that hasteth {H2907} to the prey {H400}.

They skim by like skiffs built of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

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Cross-References

  • Habakkuk 1:8 (6 votes)

    Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat.

  • Isaiah 18:2 (3 votes)

    That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

  • Job 39:27 (2 votes)

    Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

  • Job 39:30 (2 votes)

    Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.

  • 2 Samuel 1:23 (2 votes)

    Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

  • Lamentations 4:19 (2 votes)

    Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Proverbs 23:5 (2 votes)

    Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.