Job 9:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are passed away as the swifte ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. ”

Job 9:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are passed away as the swift ships - Margin, Ships of desire; or ships of Ebeh. Hebrew אבה אניה 'onı̂yâh 'êbeh . Vulgate, Naves poma portantes . Septuagint, “Is there any track lef...
Job 9:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life...
Job 9:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

swift ships . ships of ebeh. Hence vessels of bulrush (eb) . vessels of desire ('abeh), i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity ('eybah), i.e. pirate vessels; or vessels of the...
Job 9:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. As the swift ships - אניות אבה oniyoth ebeh. Ships of desire, or ships of Ebeh, says our margin; perhaps more correct...
Job 9:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As the swift ships, &c.— There are but two places that I remember, says Mr. Peters, in the book of Job, where there is any allusion to navigation. One in the present passage, where Job compares...
Job 9:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. Swift ships, х 'ªniyowt ( H591 ) 'eebeh ( H16 )] - rather, canoes of reeds, or papyrus-skiffs, used on...
Job 9:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Second Speech ( Job 9:10 ) Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most difficult in the book. Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses t...
Job 9:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Swift ships. — What is meant by the swift ships, or ships of Desire, no one knows. Literally, ships of Eveh, probably a proper name, and perhaps referring to a particular kind of boat in use on t...
Job 9:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...
Job 9:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Daysman” Job 9:1-35 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests,...
Job 9:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it is so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss...
Job 9:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(22) В¶ This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (23) If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. (24) The earth is given into t...
Job 9:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They are passed away as the swift ships ,.... Those that are lightest built, and run swiftest. Bar Tzemach thinks such vessels as are rowed with oars are meant, which may be called "ships of will or...
Job 9:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey. Ver. 26. They are passed away as the swift ships ] Heb. They are changed (gliding away insensibly) as the ships of...
Job 9:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As the swift ships Hebrew, ships of desire; that is, such as are longed for, and long to be at their destined port, and crowd all the sail they can for that purpose. Or, as in the Chaldee paraphras...
Job 9:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that i...
Job 9:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget m...
Job 9:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Swift ships, Heb. ships of desire ; which make great haste, as if they longed for their desired haven, as it is called, Psalms 107:30 . Or, ships of pleasure; which sail more swiftly than ships...
Job 9:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice ( Job 9:1 ). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, a...
Job 9:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:5 . Removeth the mountains, by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their bed...
Job 9:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now my days are swifter than a post. .. as the swift ships. Illustrations of life I. The text teaches us the brevity of human life. “My days are swifter than a post.” They are as swift-footed m...
Job 9:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 9:1-18 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bil...
Job 9:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
Job 9:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 1:23 ; Habakkuk 1:8 ; Jeremiah 4:13 ; Job 39:27-30 ; Lamentations 4:19 ; Proverbs 23:5
Job 9:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Eagle — Which flies swiftly, especially when in the sight of his prey. See here how swift the motion of time is! It is always upon the wing, hastening to its period. What little need have we of pas...

Job 9:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 9:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 9:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 9:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 9:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 9:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 9:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 9:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 9:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 9:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 9:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 9:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 9:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 9:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 9:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 9:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 9:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 9:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 9:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes