Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
In Context
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
16I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.
Cross References
Numbers 10:31And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee, inasmuch as thou know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shall be to us instead of eyes.
1 Corinthians 12:12For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →