swifter: Job 7:6-7; Esther 8:14
a post: Rotz:, a runner, or courier; some of whom are said to go 150 miles in less than 24 hours.
they flee away: Psalms 39:5, Psalms 39:11, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 90:9-10; James 4:14
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Job 9:25
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