2 Samuel 1:23; Habakkuk 1:8; Jeremiah 4:13; Job 39:27-30; Lamentations 4:19; Proverbs 23:5
They are passed away as the swift ships - Margin, Ships of desire; or ships of Ebeh. Hebrew אבה אניה 'onı̂yâh 'êbeh . Vulgate, Naves po...
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 Go...
swift ships . ships of ebeh. Hence vessels of bulrush (eb) . vessels of desire ('abeh), i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity...
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 sh...
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 navigati...
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. Swift ships, х 'ªniyowt ( H591 ) 'eebeh ( H16 )] - r...
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 'Int...
Swift ships ] Heb. 'ships of reed,' light boats made from the papyrus reed, and very swift.
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...
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 t...
“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...
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 que...
(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 tri...
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 oar...
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...
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...
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...
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 h...
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, shi...
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 es...
Job 9:5 . Removeth the mountains, by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases,...
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 ar...
EXPOSITION Job 9:1-18 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alon...
Job Insists that God Visits also the Righteous with Affliction
They are passed away as the swift ships, sweeping past like vessels of bulrush, known for their lightness and swiftness; as the eagle that hasteth t...
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, hasten...
26 They are passed away as the swifte ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.