They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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Gill's Exposition
If I say, I will forget my complaint,.... The cause of it, the loss of his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think no more of these things, and cease complaining about them,…
Barnes' Notes
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 left by ships in…
Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not…
Cambridge Bible
the swift ships the ships of reed. These skiffs, constructed of a wooden keel and the rest of reeds, are the "vessels of bulrushes" of Isa 18:2. They carried but one or two persons, and being light…
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