Job 9:26 New English Translation

²⁶They glide by^[a] like reed^[b] boats,
like an eagle that swoops^[c] down on its prey.^[d]

Job 9:26 tn Heb “they flee.”
Job 9:26 tn The word אֵבֶה (ʾeveh) 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).
Job 9:26 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.
Job 9:26 tn Heb “food.”

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