Job 9:28 — Meaning and Application

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle {that} hasteth to the prey. {swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire}

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;