Job 9:25-27

Revised Standard Version

²⁵ “My days are swifter than a runner;
    they flee away, they see no good.
²⁶ They go by like skiffs of reed,
    like an eagle swooping on the prey.
²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
    I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,’