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Job 9:26

Context

9:26 They glide by 1  like reed 2  boats,

like an eagle that swoops 3  down on its prey. 4 

1 tn Heb “they flee.”

2 tn The word אֵבֶה (’eveh) means “reed, papyrus,” but it is a different word than was in 8:11. What is in view here is a light boat made from bundles of papyrus that glides swiftly along the Nile (cf. Isa 18:2 where papyrus vessels and swiftness are associated).

3 tn The verb יָטוּשׂ (yatus) is also a hapax legomenon; the Aramaic cognate means “to soar; to hover in flight.” The sentence here requires the idea of swooping down while in flight.

4 tn Heb “food.”



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