Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping 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.
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.
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 pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good. 26 They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. 27 If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,
Names
Cross References
Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses are swifter than leopards, and more cunning than wolves that attack at night. Their horsemen are galloping as they approach from far away. They swoop in like ravenous vultures.
Isaiah 18:2
which sends envoys by the sea, in papyrus boats over the water! Go, swift messengers, to a tall, smooth-skinned nation, to a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide.
2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan, loved and handsome in life, in death were not separated. Swifter than eagles they were, and more valiant than lions.
Job 39:27-30
Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?
Proverbs 23:5
When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.
Jeremiah 4:13
Look, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots are like a whirlwind. His horses are as swift as eagles. Woe to us we're destroyed!
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than soaring eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, lying in wait for us in the wilderness.