Job 9:26

They glide by ¹  like reed ²  boats, like an eagle that swoops ³  down on its prey. ⁴ 

2Sa 1:23; Job 39:27-30; Pr 23:5; Jer 4:13; La 4:19; Hab 1:8

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.”