Job 9:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to the prey.

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  • Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
  • Isa 18:2 : 2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and polished, to a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled, whose land the rivers have ravaged!
  • Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots shall be like a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
  • Lam 4:19 : 19 Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in 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 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make its nest on high? 28 It dwells on the rock and resides on the crag of the rock, in the stronghold. 29 From there it seeks its prey, and its eyes see afar off. 30 Its young ones also drink blood; and where the slain are, there it is.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

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    25 Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

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    18 They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

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    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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    14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

  • Ps 58:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 Let them melt away as waters that run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be cut in pieces.

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  • Job 6:17-18
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    17 At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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  • Job 30:14-15
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    72%

    14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

    15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.

  • Ps 109:23
    71%

    23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.

  • Ps 73:19
    71%

    19 How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Job 20:8
    71%

    8 He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

  • Job 4:20
    71%

    20 They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

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    70%

    5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

  • Job 21:18
    70%

    18 They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Job 24:18
    70%

    18 He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Hab 1:8
    70%

    8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

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    69%

    5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

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    69%

    26 Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch its wings toward the south?

  • Job 24:24
    69%

    24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are removed out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Job 17:11
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    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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    69%

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    68%

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    23 Your tackle is loosed; they could not strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then the prey of great plunder is divided, the lame take the prey.

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    68%

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    68%

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

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    68%

    13 Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots shall be like a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.

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    68%

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    68%

    13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave.

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    68%

    17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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    68%

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    68%

    11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

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    68%

    9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils they are consumed.

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    68%

    4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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    68%

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  • Ps 22:13
    68%

    13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

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    68%

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  • Prov 7:23
    67%

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    67%

    8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

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    67%

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    67%

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    67%

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