Job 9:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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 Nile ('abai, Abyssinian for Nile). Others, vessels of Joppa. Perhaps the last is best.

Job 9:26

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