Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation My life passes like the swiftest boat, as fast as an eagle swooping down on a rabbit. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey. swift ships. Job 39:27-30 Will the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest in high places? . . . 2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions. Proverbs 23:5 Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven. Jeremiah 4:13 Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste. Lamentations 4:19 Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness. Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat. Context Job: How Can I Argue with God?…25My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. 26They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand, Job 39:29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled. Habakkuk 1:8 Their horses are lighter than leopards, and swifter than evening wolves; and their horsemen shall be spread abroad: for their horsemen shall come from afar, they shall fly as an eagle that maketh haste to eat. Jump to Previous Boats Dropping Eagle Eagles Food Hasteth Papyrus Passed Past Prey Reed Rushing Ships Slip Suddenly Swift Swoopeth Swooping Swoops VultureJump to Next Boats Dropping Eagle Eagles Food Hasteth Papyrus Passed Past Prey Reed Rushing Ships Slip Suddenly Swift Swoopeth Swooping Swoops VultureLinks Job 9:26 NIVJob 9:26 NLT Job 9:26 ESV Job 9:26 NASB Job 9:26 Bible Apps Job 9:26 Biblia Paralela Job 9:26 Chinese Bible Job 9:26 French Bible Job 9:26 German Bible Alphabetical: an boats by down eagle eagles its like of on papyrus past prey reed skim slip swooping swoops that their They OT Poetry: Job 9:26 They have passed away as the swift (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |