Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
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- Hab 1:8 : 8 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.
- Isa 18:2 : 2 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!
- Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- Lam 4:19 : 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
- 2 Sam 1:23 : 23 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.
- Job 39:27-30 : 27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? 28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.
- Prov 23:5 : 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
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26 ¶ Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south?
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24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
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8 Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
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